Great Sui Guoshi

"Indeed."

Asking for directions will happen from time to time, so there is no need to hide it. Lu Liangsheng knows that in this kind of place, the people who come and go often have more news.

"The four of us want to go to Ziling Mountain. I don't know if my little brother has heard of the name of this mountain nearby or in other states?"

"This..." The man frowned, thought for a moment, and shook his head: "The place name the guest officer asked is a bit off. As far as I know, there is no mountain nearby with such an elegant name."

"Brother, why don't you think about it again?"

At this time, the guests at other tables asked the waiter to add more dishes, and Lu Liangsheng couldn't force them to stay, so he asked him to go to work first, and it would not be too late to think about it.

"That's okay, the four guest officials will eat first, and the younger ones will come back later."

As soon as the clerk put on the rag, he carried the wooden tray and walked towards the table that was called him just now. After serving the dishes, he hurriedly greeted the new customers who entered the store, his hands and feet were quite nimble, and there was no delay on either side.

The teahouse was full of noise, Li Suian and Qu Yuanfeng were drinking tea with mustard cakes, tearing off a piece of goose meat and stuffing it into their mouths, it was delicious.

On the side, Yu Wentuo put down his chopsticks: "Master, when will the three disciples leave and practice alone?"

Hearing this, Li Suian and the two stopped chewing and looked at the master on the other side.

Lu Liangsheng put down the teacup and thought about it for a while. He said before that after leaving Lanruo Temple, he asked the three of them to leave to experience each other, but he was too busy thinking about how to deal with the Qihuo Cult, so he forgot about it.

"Well... don't tell me, as a teacher, I almost forgot about this matter. How about it, when you leave the Shangyong land, the three of you will share a little money, so that you can use it on the road. As for going Where, it is also up to you to decide, how long the experience is or if there is something difficult to deal with on the way, you can use the magic weapon given to you by the master to send a message, so that you can know the direction."

After listening to the experience of walking alone, Li Suian even forgot to gnaw the beard cakes, staring at the tea on the table and laughing, Qu Yuanfeng stroked the short beard that grew out of his chin, and looked at Yu Wentuo, the friendship between the two has been growing since they were still beside the fat monk It has already been accepted, since they came together, they must go together, probably going to Chang'an with Yu Wentuo.

Afterwards, after the meal, Lu Liangsheng asked him to pack the roast goose and some pancakes, and the shop guy came to pay the bill.

"A total of 68 articles, by the way, guest officer, you asked before, I really don't know, but I asked other customers in the store, and a vendor knew it. He said that it was in the northeast of Helingzhou. Where can I go?" It is close to the sea, and it is about a thousand miles away from here."

The clerk looked at the man in front of him, carrying a long sword with him, except for a strong young man with long and short beards, the other three didn't look like they could travel far, especially when they came with an old donkey that had lost its hair. Impossible to go that far.

"The four of you want to visit famous mountains, why do you have to travel so far, thousands of miles, and you don't know what dangers are on the way."

"Thank you brother for your kind reminder."

After paying the bill, Lu Liangsheng took the packed roast goose and pancakes in his hands, put them on the bookshelf, and bowed his hands to the guy who went to the shed to welcome customers and bid farewell, then took the reins and pulled the old donkey Bypass the bustling official road and walk eastward to the forest path with few people.

He waved his hand to undo the blindfold on the donkey's back, and Sun Yingxian, who was bundled like a rice dumpling, was let down. Lu Liangsheng unwrapped the roast goose and mustard pancakes wrapped in lotus leaves, placed them on a stone, and waved at the Taoist.

The rope slipped to the ground by itself, and Sun Yingxian quickly spat out the cloth in his mouth, kneading his arms: "You are so right..."

The torn roast goose was stuffed into his mouth, and his words were blocked. Lu Liangsheng took the remaining half and walked to the bookshelf. Taoist Toad tied his apron early, sat cross-legged in the cubicle and waited.

"Put it down quickly."

The toad grabbed the powdered ingredients and sprinkled them on it, sniffed it vigorously, stretched out its webs, "Don't worry about being a teacher, Liangsheng can go to work on his own."

Then, bang the small door shut.

Lu Liangsheng stood up with a smile, looked at the apprentice over there, took out a bag of broken silver from his cuff, and handed it to Yu Wentuo: "When parting, share the silver money with the two juniors, and as a teacher, you don't say anything about parting." , just remember, don’t act recklessly outside and kill lives, otherwise, don’t mention the name of your teacher in front of outsiders.”

It's not life and death, the three of them also have their own cultivation bases, and they can handle ordinary things by themselves, not to mention that only by letting go, these three apprentices can be sharpened.

"What a teacher should teach, I will also teach you. In the future, you will have to rely on yourself to practice."

Said, Lu Liangsheng waved his hand.

"The art of shrinking the ground into an inch, you can also. If you want to Qixia Mountain, come and live for a few days, and go find your own way."

Yu Wentuo looked at Yu Wen's money bag in his hand, with a hesitant expression on his indifferent face.

"Master, about the Fire Praying Sect..."

Li Suian also nodded: "Yes, master, although I wish I could go out into the rivers and lakes now, it's your business."

"You can't meddle in the matter of being a teacher." Lu Liangsheng laughed, and he was naturally happy to hear his apprentice say these words. As for the matter of praying for fire, he would not let these three gangsters have some morals Lu Liangsheng's apprentices took part in and cherished the feathers, and he, Lu Liangsheng, would do the same.

"There is no need to say more."

There were few pedestrians on the road, and when no one passed by, Lu Liangsheng flicked his robe sleeves in front of the three of them. Yu Wentuo and the others, who originally wanted to persuade them, lost their sight, and the surrounding scenery was spinning, and they moved lightly. When the field of vision stabilized and became clear, he had already arrived in other directions of Shangyong City.

The three looked at each other, sighed, divided the money, and stepped into their respective bags. Li Suian had a free and easy temperament, raised his wide sleeves and bowed, and bid farewell to the two brothers.

Quite chic, he turned and walked eastward, probably wanting to go back to see his aunt first.

Watching him leave, Yu Wentuo and Qu Yuanfeng also stepped on their burdens and headed north with their magic swords. He wanted to go back to visit his relatives and find out the cause of his parents' death.

.......

The sky was bright, and Lu Liangsheng sat beside the devouring Taoist, with his hands on his knees, listening to the annoying cicadas, his heart became more peaceful.

"Actually, you can't bear it either." The Taoist with a mustache in his mouth muttered.

Lu Liangsheng looked at the spots of light illuminated by the gaps between the branches and leaves, and smiled amidst the spots.

"It's reluctance. After being together for three years, I still have feelings. It's okay to leave. When the chicks finally leave the nest, they shed their soft feathers so that they can spread their wings and fly high."

After resting for a while, he took a deep breath, released the emotions of separation, and patted the Taoist on the shoulder.

"Let's go, it's time for us to go on the road. It's a long way, and there may be many strange things on the way."

"Go together!"

The Taoist with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks showed a smile, jumped onto the back of the old donkey, sat down next to the scholar, pulled out a yellow talisman, and slapped it on the donkey's buttocks.

The old donkey, who was still gnawing grass, raised his head with his eyes wide open, hissed and hissed long, and he spread his hooves as if frightened, and swished up a long smoke, drifting away into the bright sunshine.

In the suddenly swaying bookshelf, half a piece of roast goose crashed into the mouth of Ha Dao's mouth abruptly, and his head grew twice as big.

"The other mother's..."

Indistinct cursing sounded vaguely along with the galloping old donkey.

Chapter 252 The Fun of Mountains and Fields

The morning sun rises among the clouds, the green trees form a forest, and the branches and leaves sway gently in the wind.

On the mottled fallen treetops, the piebald sparrow shakes its feathers, jumps up from the branch, spreads its wings and flies into the sun. In an instant, a stone hits and falls to the ground in a whirl.

The Taoist ran over with a yellow cloth bag on his shoulders, picked up the sparrows and squatted down to the side of the road, and cast a fire talisman to burn the feathers of the birds. Birds put away.

"Follow this way, you won't be hungry, there seems to be a pool ahead, bring two more fish up!"

The old donkey who came over shook his long ears, and in the shaking bookshelf behind him, Taoist Toad pushed open the small door and poked his head out.

"Two are not enough, catch a few more."

"Got it, got it." Sun Yingxian put away the cloth bag, rubbed his hands in the grass, ran forward excitedly, and disappeared at the end of the forest road in a blink of an eye.

Amidst the jingling bells, behind the old donkey, Lu Liangsheng was holding two copies of "Mountain and Sea Picture Records" as he walked and read them. He passed through Huaiyi Prefecture and turned north, but he didn't encounter any strange things, but people could be seen everywhere. Live and work in peace and prosperity, the city is prosperous, it can be seen that in the next few years, the Chen Dynasty will be completely restored, and the people's life will not be too bad.

After all, Yang Jian is a good emperor. After the fire praying incident, I took the time to go over to have a look. If possible, draw a picture scroll of grand events for him. I don't know if it can add luck to the Sui Dynasty.

While reading books and walking, he was thinking about other things in his mind. The dirt road in the forest under his feet was rough, but he did not stumble. In the grinning voice, he teased Lu Liangsheng's face.

It is the tree demon in human form, with its veil removed, its appearance is exquisite and glamorous, but the tree is asexual, sometimes the tree demon will play tricks and turn into a man. Once, the Taoist wanted to go up to get close, but who would have thought that the tree demon Turning her head, it was Yan Chixia's face. She was so frightened that she was depressed for two days in a row, and she got better when she was beyond the boundary of Huaiyi Prefecture.

Lu Liangsheng took the dog's tail grass that he had teased, and tapped the smiling pretty face on the forehead: "Why do those two fox demons call you grandma?"

"Because... old, like this!"

The child-like intellect of a few years old made the thousand-year-old tree demon quite cheerful. He covered his face with his hands, and then pulled them away, turning into an old woman, and even his black high-cut hair became completely white.

Her slim body is slightly arched, but she really looks old.

"Old demon, aren't you very powerful? I think some people who passed through Lanruo Temple were very fierce and frightened others, so I was very fierce in front of them, but not in front of the old demon. "

Lu Liangsheng returned the dog's tail grass to her: "Why not?"

The dryad in the black skirt danced the grass, trotted to the front happily, her skirt spread out, her face turned around and she smiled charmingly, but her tone was a bit mischievous.

"Because you are an old demon, I remember you! It seems that I have known you for a long time."

In the sunshine, the old donkey gnawed on the green grass and walked leisurely in front, a man and a demon followed behind, talking and laughing. In the bookshelf, Taoist Toad crossed his legs and sat by the door. He subconsciously touched the rope around his waist and knocked it a few times. The cigarette butt was lit again, and she comfortably leaned against the gourd lying horizontally behind her, and took a sip, her round belly lit up, and she exhaled smoke.

"The old man feels... If this goes on like this, I won't know how to make progress... Back then, I was close to the demon king, quack..."

"Take another sip."

While thinking about it, I couldn't help taking another sip, and suddenly a Taoist voice came from the front.

"Eat here at noon!"

Lu Liangsheng stopped talking, led the dryad for a while, came to the front of the old donkey, took the rein and walked out of the woods on both sides. The field of vision became wider, and several lush small peaks stood in the distance. In the past direction, a raised terrain formed two halves. , There is a mountain spring gurgling to the pool five or six feet below, with leaves floating on the water, and when you get closer, you can see the dark green bottomless.

Putting down the reins, and taking the pots and bowls from the bookshelf, Lu Liangsheng let the old donkey play around by himself. When he saw the Taoist who was tying a thin thread to the broken branch over there, he couldn't help laughing and said:

"Why bother."

"Then what can you do, draw a picture?"

Seeing the scholar unfolding a blank scroll, the Taoist threw the branch in his hand to the ground, patted the dust and walked over: "This is even more troublesome for you, if it weren't for the fact that I don't want to destroy the scenery here, I would shoot down a few palm thunders and catch fish." What kind of fish, Grandma Fish will bring it up for you."

"I also know that the scenery here is very beautiful, and it happens that fishing is also elegant."

Lu Liangsheng smiled and said, the tip of the pen in his hand was stained with ink and fell onto the scroll, and the tree demon couldn't help poking his head over.

I saw, on the clean white paper, the green ink moved with the tip of the pen, and pulled out a long ink. Lu Liangsheng pulled away the wide sleeve of the wrist holding the pen, and shook it lightly. The ink embellished several links, and the ink bamboo pole took shape.

Lift the wrist slightly, leaving only the tip of the pen on it, draw a fishing line meanderingly, and draw at the end of the line casually, the fishhook is formed.

Lu Liangsheng put down the brush, flicked his cuff up, and stretched out his hand to grab it. The ink-colored bamboo pole connected with the fishing line and fishhook miraculously lifted out of the painting, and the painting became blank again.

The Taoist hurriedly touched the paper, his eyes filled with horror.

"When you come to Yuanying, can you paint fiction as reality?"

"It can only turn some small things, dead things." Lu Liangsheng waved the fishing rod, and he could feel his mana condensed on it, "like this fishing rod, or some tables, chairs and stools."

Seeing the Taoist staring at him, he immediately understood what the other person wanted to say, waved his face away, walked to the edge of the pool, brushed the dust off a stone, and cast a bait on the hook.

"Don't even think about it. Painting a beautiful woman has no soul."

"It's not interesting enough." The Taoist muttered, and went to raise the fire pot.

The Dryad leaned over with a smile, and squatted aside, "Then let me show you."

Hearing this, Sun Yingxian hurriedly stepped aside, buried her face, and waved her hands repeatedly with lingering fear.

"Forget it, if you suddenly become a bodhisattva, god or Buddha in the temple, I'm afraid you will be struck to death by lightning..."

Not long after, the smoke rose from the kitchen, and the tree demon was afraid of the fire, so he didn't say much to the Taoist, and ran to find the old donkey.

The sun is pouring down, shining on this quiet old forest and deep pool, Lu Liangsheng is holding a fishing rod to catch a small fish, and throwing it to the Taoist behind him who is cooking and cooking, he faintly hears the sound of the forest on the high ground, like Someone is singing.

"...Crossing the mountain ridge, there is that village, the woman who has not been through the door is looking at the sky... I hope that my elder brother will climb the wall in the middle of the night..."

Some nasty folk songs came here with the rustling footsteps in the forest, an old man carrying a few bundles of firewood stopped his voice, and saw a young man in a white robe with apricot pattern fishing at the pool below , the expression on his face froze for a moment, until the young man over there smiled at him and bowed his hands in salute.

The scholar had a gentle smile and was polite, and the old man quickly imitated the other party's etiquette and returned the salute.

The north is densely populated, and it is normal for there to be houses in the mountains. Lu Liangsheng inserted his fishing rod into the cracks in the rocks and walked up to the high place.

"Old man, I happened to pass by here to start a fire and cook. I don't have any firewood. Why don't you sell me a few bundles on your back?"

Seeing a few copper coins being handed over, the old man hesitated for a moment, then lowered his body, took the bundle of firewood and put it on the ground.

"If it's not enough, this young man will take another bundle."

"Enough is enough."

After handing the copper coin to the old man, Lu Liangsheng chatted with him, asked about the place by the way, and asked He Lingzhou which road should be the closest.

During the conversation here, there was a soft 'boo' sound in the pool, and the floating fishing line was pulled down suddenly and tightened.

Yawning on the bookshelf, Taoist Toad, basking in the sun, glanced at it, and saw the fishing rod swaying from side to side in the crevices of the rocks, and saw his apprentice talking to an old man, mumbling, and stepping on his frog webs walked over.

"Hey, I can't catch a single fish well, so the old man has to come in person."

The frog clasped the fishing rod together, connected to the fishing line in the water and moved around, and sank suddenly. As soon as the toad Taoist was holding the fishing rod, he felt a violent pull, his eyes widened, and his short stature was in line with the fishing rod. Bang fell to the pool.

Hearing the voice, the Taoist turned his head, but he couldn't see anything with his parallel eyes.

"Did you hear anything, old Toad?"

Beside the bookshelf, there was no response.

Chapter 253 Little Green Snake