Taoist chanting

In Dingxi City, the sky is dark and gloomy, and the wind is dry and cold.

Hearing a knock on the courtyard door, Shi Nanguan put down his small regular script brush, stopped copying scriptures, got up and went to open the door.

He doesn't expect the captain who holds a long gun to clean these chores every day, let alone Tie Jinlin, who dumps items on the table next to him and keeps accounts. On the days when they don't have missions, Yan Jing spends most of the time with the newcomer Cui Zhongxian. The Injury Inspection Department in the city helped, and Shang Qingyun spent half a day in Donglin Pavilion to ask people about the formation.

He, the vice-captain, was so busy copying scriptures every day.

Opening the courtyard door, I saw a shy and slightly shy face that was not familiar.

Shi Nanguan hooked the shoulder of Zhuang Yu who came to the door, dragged him enthusiastically into the yard, and closed the door with a "Peng" with his foot, and shouted: "Brothers, you are a distinguished guest, please treat me well."

Wei Jingjie stepped out of the threshold of the main room with his polished long gun in his hand, smiling with white teeth showing.

Tie Jinlin didn't even care about keeping accounts, and was busy putting the loot and spirit stones into the storage space. He was not afraid of thieves stealing them, but he was afraid of thieves thinking about them.

Pressing the treasure hidden in his chest, Tie Jinlin rushed out of the main room and ran to the front of the captain, he laughed and said, "What kind of wind brought Brother Yu here today? Brother, you are so small. You have to hold back a few punches, you should get to the bottom of it first, we have never beaten the master's apprentice, so we won't let the master know, can you wear shoes for us?"

Clenched fists "cluck".

Zhuang Yu clasped his hands together with a smile on his face: "Brother, I was knocked down with one punch, and I can't bear the fists of my brothers." He took out a note with his right hand, and unfolded it to Tie Jinlin: "Brother, I'm here to pay off the debt. Last time Thank you brothers for your generosity, it saved me a lot of time, I will go to the most expensive restaurant on the street to set up a table later, order casually, even if you frown, you will not be called a man."

Tie Jinlin took the note, saw that it was written by the head of the mountain, and handed the note to the captain.

Shi Nanguan glanced at it, and let go of his tight arms with a hey smile: "They're all my brothers, so I'll see you if you're too polite, and eat something at home... Old Tie, which restaurant is the most expensive in the city?" Zhuang Yu adjusted the crumpled robe.

After making a fuss for a while, they walked into the main room.

Zhuang Yu greeted Lord Donkey and put down a jar of good wine.

"What's the matter with that? Tell us quickly, while Quiet is not at home."

Shi Nanguan couldn't wait to ask.

"I've been practicing in the Taoist temple these days, and I haven't gone anywhere. I don't know what you're talking about, Brother Pumpkin?"

"Believe it or not, I hit you with a fist the size of a sandbag, and your nose was bruised and your face was swollen, making you unable to go out."

Shi Nanguan said angrily, stretching out his hand to wrap his neck, Tie Jinlin laughed and began to clenched his fists again, the captain grinned and showed his white teeth, entered their den, how dare you not invite it?His clothes were all stripped off.

"Don't mind, brothers, why can't you take a joke."

Zhuang Yu pushed away Xiaopang's restless paws, took out a piece of yellow paper from his cuff, and said: "My friend in Qizhou sent a message yesterday, saying that the boy suffered retribution. gone."

He waited in the Taoist temple for his master to leave the seclusion, in order to pay homage to his master. After waiting for more than ten days, he finally got good news from Qizhou, and he didn't need to make any follow-up moves.

It was one of the apprentices of the former old temple master of Jinfeng Temple who used the purchased "jade sunflower lotus" to poison a woman to avenge the old temple master in one fell swoop.

Wei Jingjie hurriedly snatched the yellow talisman to investigate. It was clearly stated on it, so he didn't speak for a while.

Shi Nanguan and Tie Jinlin took it and looked at it respectively, and the three of them looked at each other in blank dismay.

They kept in touch with the Taoist brothers and knew that Zhuang Yu had been back to the sect for some time, so they felt a little unreal about the strange cause of his death.

"I really didn't do it. It has nothing to do with me. I am innocent. Why do you look at me like this?"

Zhuang Yu cried out for injustice.

Even if he did it, he wouldn't admit it.

It was the follow-up caused by the rumors he spread some time ago. Maybe the old master of Jinfeng Temple was really killed by that kid. Anyway, there is no proof of his death now, and no one can figure it out.

He came to Dingxi City to discover something else, and he came to inquire about the news in advance.

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Chapter 534

Shi Nanguan patted Huang Fu into Zhuang Yu's hands, and said with contempt: "You are so innocent, you even lied to your brothers." He hooked Zhuang Yu's neck again, and said meanly: "Brother, Brother, I have to remind you that there is a knife on Sezi's head, you are still young and ignorant, and you often run outside, you have to hold on, don't be like that guy who was poisoned by a woman."

Wei Jingjie and Tie Jinlin kicked away the fat man talking nonsense.

"If you don't know how to speak, just hold back your words. Although Brother Yu doesn't look very good, he has a good heart."

Tie Jinlin hurt the two of them with one sentence. Seeing their eyebrows crossed, he made a haha, and asked, "Brother Yu, what other serious business do you have besides going to write off the account? We won't keep it if there is nothing else. Guest, where do you come from and where do you go, we will not eat the banquet."

Seeing the three guys standing in a row, staring at them with their hands folded across their chests, not even a bowl of tea, Zhuang Yu sat down by himself, and beckoned: "Sit down, why are you polite, compare yourself with the stick?"

Seeing the three people sneering and being unmoved, Zhuang Yu said helplessly: "The temple master has been in seclusion for quite a while, I have urgent errands to do, and I haven't had time to get the warrant from the temple master, and the mountain chief refused to give me two thousand spirit stones "

Hearing this, the three of them understood what was going on, Huang Pizi entered the house and came for nothing.

Tie Jinlin and Shi Nanguan cooperated tacitly, stepped forward to set up Zhuang Yu and carried it outside, and wanted to throw this thing out so as not to harm them.

"Don't tell me, I need to use the Spiritual Qi Stone for something urgent. I will write an IOU and imprint my fingerprints. When I return to the Master to leave the customs, I will cancel the account immediately. Don't you disciples of the Master believe it?"

Zhuang Yu exclaimed that it was the head of the mountain who gave him advice, saying that the five wealthy landowners in Dingxi City were so fat that they should go beat their autumn wind. His errands also fell in Dingxi City, so he went to Zhoucheng to apply for an official letter Pidiandian came running.

He just destroyed the IOU he wrote last time, and immediately wanted to borrow another two thousand spirit stones.

His skin is unusually thick, but he is also confident.

Wei Jingjie laughed angrily at that rascal's behavior, why didn't he find out before?Said: "Okay, Jin Lin will give him two thousand spiritual energy stones, leave an IOU, and send him away!"

He already vaguely knew from the mountain chief's message that Zhuang Yu was doing some secret work. A guy who was not very talkative before became glib, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"The sect needs someone to contribute from obscurity, and that person may be the disciple of the master."

These are the original words sent to him by the head of the mountain.

He understood the profound meaning of the temple master's sudden acceptance of disciples.

I didn't ask the other party what kind of errand they were doing, and the other party would naturally say what they could tell, and don't ask if they shouldn't.

Zhuang Yu got the spirit stone and said happily that he would invite them to a banquet next time, but the oil on the soles of his feet slipped off.

Shi Nanguan laughed and cursed a few words, picked up the brush again, and before he could write a few lines, there was another knock on the door. He glanced at the two who wiped their guns and settled the accounts, pretending not to hear, and sighed: "You are bullying honest people. People, tomorrow I will go fooling around on the street and won't serve you."

Tie Jinlin didn't raise his eyelids, and said, "Pumpkin, I'll give you a chance to move around more, don't babble and don't know what's good or bad."

Shi Nanguan rolled his eyes angrily, went to the yard and opened the gate.

Standing outside was Chen Qingqiao who hadn't seen him for some time. Shi Nanguan bowed his hands and greeted with a smile. He suddenly noticed that Chen Qingqiao's breath was a little unstable, and he looked different. He asked in surprise, "Guanzhu Chen, have you advanced?"

"Thanks to the blessing of your temple master, I got away with it, let's go, go in and talk."

Chen Qingqiao was in a great mood.

Last time, in the life-and-death battle with five witch cultivators, two disciples of the Gradient Realm were lost. Relying on the "Gathering Qi and Transforming Evil Gourd" handed down from the Taoist temple and a few treasures, he teamed up with two other juniors to kill the three disciples on the opposite side. , A miserable victory and return to the city.

Although the experience in the border city is full of dangers, but the bloody tempering on the front line of life and death can really stimulate the potential in the body and break the bottleneck at critical moments. He can be regarded as experiencing it.

Qingshuiguan caught up with the last carriage of the promoted sect.

All losses are worth it.

With the help of the chaotic kendo comprehension gained from painting plums, Zhang Wenfeng sits cross-legged on bamboo

Floor, immersed in it.

After an unknown number of days, I entered the state of sitting and forgetting both things and me.

He is located near the core of the aura near the mountain gate, between two low hills. Even in the middle of winter, the spiritual plants grow lush and lush, and the wood energy is active.

It's been several years, I haven't felt touched, just sit and forget everything.

The body is like a tree born between heaven and earth, seemingly illusory, illusory, and actually enjoying the wind, frost, rain and dew.

When he woke up from the realm of cultivation, he was silent for a long time. He glanced at the broken bronze sword held in both hands. There were traces of blue light on the intact sword spine. His thoughts moved slightly, and silk swords appeared in the air like flowing water. Intention, the two merged, and then plunged into the sword body and disappeared.

Unknowingly, this broken sword was refined to match his heart.

He floated up, held the hilt of the sword with his right hand and sent it forward, the room of the bamboo building was filled with countless tangible or invisible entangled sword energy, the sword energy turned into threads, circling and cutting in countless directions, making fine trembling and cracking sounds.

The "Flowing Water Sword Intent" and "Wrapping Silk Sword Intent" that he has mastered, this retreat, the understanding of the sword will has improved to a higher level.

Retracting the sword edge in satisfaction, the sword energy instantly subsided, and the room was full of cold spirit.

From his perception of painting plums, he grasped a trace of the sword spirit of "the dead wood is still growing again in spring", and realized the "dead wood sword spirit" of the wood line that matched his physique. Although it was only in its infancy, he was particularly excited.

With a swing of the sword, hallucinations abound in the room, and illusory flowers bloom.

One of the flowers bloomed to the maximum and suddenly exploded silently.

Qi movement fluctuated like ripples, Zhang Wenfeng hurriedly withdrew his sword, suppressing the burst of power of the sword that he could not fully grasp, affecting the core of the mountain gate formation, the gain outweighed the loss.

Returning the sword to its sheath, he leaned over to clean the brushes, dishes and other utensils that had dried up long ago, cleaned them up, opened the bamboo door and went out, the sun was shining outside, and the paper written by Hu Qiang'er on the door was blowing in the wind, he smiled .

Stepping down the stairs, a back-to-basics and introverted back-to-basics exuded from top to bottom.

I don't know how long he has been practicing in seclusion. His cultivation base has been promoted to the perfect state of ease, and his Taoist heart is peaceful. He has the feeling that he can walk out of the ordinary road and prepare for the promotion of Jindan.

"Master, you are out of customs."

Hu Qiang'er noticed the movement, stepped on the wooden sword and flew over immediately, followed by the little *tong with a ruddy face and a little fatter.

Reaching out to support the two children who were saluting, Zhang Wenfeng sensed the little *tong's different closeness to him, and asked with a smile: "How long have I been in retreat?"

"Master, this time you retreated for a month and two days, which is longer than ever before."

Hu Qiang'er hurriedly said.

"Oh, it's mid-December, time flies by so fast."

Zhang Wenfeng said with a little emotion, there is no time for cultivation, and after a high level of cultivation, it is common to retreat for decades at a time, and every generation in the world may go through old age, sickness and death.

Leng Xiang raised her head and invited: "Master, the sun is just right, and the plum blossoms are romantic. Do you want to go and watch them?"

"Of course, you still don't lead the way?"

Zhang Wenfeng laughed, and followed the two young ones to the hillside to admire the plum blossoms. Go in the direction of other courtyards.

The two little boys, one on the left and the other on the right, each walked along with wooden swords.

When sitting in the tea room with the head of the mountain and drinking tea, I sent the two young ones to play without waiting for the rules.

Leng Xiang likes to read books, so she took Hu Qiang'er to the library yard.

The head of the mountain talked about recent events, Tu Kun came back, stayed for a long time and left in a hurry, Chen Qingqiao of Qingshui Temple advanced to the free realm, Zhuang Yu went to Dingxi City, and talked about it scatteredly.

Zhang Wenfeng opened Zhuang Yu's letter to him, saw the news that Gu Chaowen was murdered by the Taoist priests of Jinfeng Temple, he was silent for a while, and asked, "Master Shan, what is the situation of Jinfeng Temple now?"

"The news of Jinfeng Temple has already been suppressed. It is said that several disciples of the old master of Jinfeng Temple were all implicated, and Gu Quan ruthlessly abolished their cultivation bases and expelled them. That disciple who escaped, where is he hiding? I haven’t found it so far. Gu Quan’s promotion banquet will be held on the original date, I replied to Jinfeng Temple a while ago, if the owner of the temple leaves the customs in time, he will go to the banquet, and I will send a message to Jinfeng Temple later.”

"When will Qingshui Temple hold the banquet for the promoted sect?"

"March [-] next year."

Continue to give back in the evening, Xiongqi, the author

Chapter 535 You are also cowardly

After chatting about other things for a while, Zhang Wenfeng asked, "Did Zhuang Yu say that he went to Dingxi City, why?"

"He received the news that he found some interesting things, and he will report to me after confirming the truth and falsehood. I read it and read the mobile version) Now more than half a month has passed, that boy is like a sparrow getting into the woods , how can there be a letter from half a piece of paper?"

The head of the mountain took a sip of tea, and said again: "Before he left, he asked me to borrow two thousand spirit stones with empty teeth. I asked him to go to Dingxi City to find Wei Jingjie. He came to the door with a cheeky face, and he was not afraid of being beaten. Let alone let him Borrowed."

Zhang Wenfeng couldn't help laughing, the kid was released for half a year, and turned into a hob meat.

He knew where Zhuang Yu's aura stone flowers were. The list he showed last time said that Zhuang Yu had developed many secret informants in Nanjiangzhou City, Qizhou City, and Dingxi City respectively. In Zhoucheng, which is close to Fangshi Street, teahouses and small restaurants were opened respectively, and the underground business was carried out in a decent manner.

This time I ran to Dingxi City suddenly, probably because I discovered something very important.

Hearing the mountain chief tell the embarrassing story about Zhuang Yu borrowing money in Dingxi City and being almost thrown out of the courtyard, Zhang Wenfeng nodded and said with a smile: "Ajie is good, he can handle big and small things clearly, and he is worthy of a big responsibility. I will finish my border city experience in April next year , I suggest that he be the deacon in charge of the law, and share some affairs for you, the head of the mountain."

Guys who stand out like Zhuang Yu, as well as the supervision of the Zhoucheng shop, the observance of the precepts by the disciples in the Taoist temple, etc., all need to be supervised by the Zhanglvtang.

The Taoist temple has been upgraded to a sect, and each hall must be gradually improved and each perform its duties.

It cannot be decided by the temple master or supervisor alone, that way we will not be able to cultivate independent talents, which will be detrimental to the future development of the sect.

The head of the mountain is very optimistic about Wei Jingjie, who has been trained and inspected for several years, and readily agrees. He is not at ease with that kid Zhuang Yu. , he is more at ease.

After talking about the matter, the two went out to inspect the circle, and then went about their own affairs.

Zhang Wenfeng sent a summons to Zhuang Yu, asking what he was up to?

Half an hour later, I received a reply.

Zhuang Yu received a clue through the loose cultivators he secretly developed in Dingxi City. The Shengzigou, about [-] miles south of Dingxi City, has complex terrain, ravines and mountains. In the past two years, two visiting monks disappeared. event.

Zhuang Yu collected information about Changxi City on the opposite side, and Wu Xiu also disappeared two groups of people there. Dingxi City and Changxi City respectively sent experts into Shengzigou to investigate several times, but nothing was found.

He was very interested in that area, mixed with the visiting monks, and went to the outer edge of the rope ditch to investigate twice.