Great Sui Guoshi

Talking and laughing, Lu Liangsheng walked to the entrance of the village under the escort of eight people. Mingyue, who was almost seven years old, saw her husband coming out, and wanted to follow her.

"No, you stay in Qixia Mountain to take care of the magic circle, and if you have nothing to do, go to Xiaoquan Mountain to talk to your mother more."

Lu Liangsheng caressed the top of his head, Mingyue only felt that the idea of ​​following him out faded, she raised her face and nodded.

"Well, Mingyue listens to her husband and must guard Qixia Mountain."

In the distance, when he heard the neighing of the old donkey and Wang Banxia's cry, Lu Liangsheng smiled and patted the child's thin shoulder: "This is just like a little man, he behaves well, next time Mr. take you."

Saying that, he bowed his hands and bid farewell to the villagers who were seeing him off at the entrance of the village, and turned around freely and walked to the road outside the village. Over there, Wang Banzhu was pulling the old donkey with sweat on his face, and Daoist Hama tied two ropes inside the shaking bookshelf. , patted it reassuringly, sat by the door, knocked on the cigarette rod a few times, and shook the soot inside.

"Let's go."

Lu Liangsheng walked in front of them and snapped his fingers. The old donkey shook his head, shook off the old man, followed behind his master with a grunt, and rang the copper bell around his neck.

The tinkling sound echoed in the sunlight.

Lu Liangsheng walked to the side of the road. On the far foot of the mountain, a figure in a red dress stood on the top of a tree and looked over. In the sunlight, a smile appeared on his handsome face.

He waved his hand, bid farewell to Hong Lian, and set off again.

Chapter 3 and Five

In the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, there are steep mountains on all sides. It is difficult to cross the steep foothills, and the rivers flow upstream from east to west. Most boatmen are reluctant to pass through the gorge with long peaks and gorges on both sides and many hidden reefs at the bottom of the water.

Moreover, going upstream to Hanchuan and then to the hinterland of Western Shu was too much time-consuming, so Lu Liangsheng still chose to enter Shu by land, from the hinterland of Nanchen to the west, after passing Xiangfan, he had already entered the mountains of Sichuan and Shu.

At this time, the spring rain is continuous, pattering on the dense mountains and wild forests, on the dirt roads in the mountains, hoof prints are moving towards the hills one after another.

The old donkey was carrying the scholar who was sitting horizontally on his back. He stretched out his tongue cheerfully, and then retracted it. After the raindrops fell, a frog webbed it and said, "Don't move around!"

Taoist Toad supported its long ears, controlled its balance, and looked around.

"Liangsheng, does this road lead to Sichuan?"

As the copper bells jingled, the old donkey went up the hillside, and the scholar on his back closed "The Boundless Mountain and Sea", waved his robe sleeves, and swept away the falling raindrops.

"Master, don't you often overlook mountains, rivers and rivers?"

"Hmph, I'm old as a teacher, so it's possible to watch the job."

While talking, the old man who was leaning on a wooden stick behind and poking on the ground raised his eyes and still had raindrops falling into his slightly opened eyes, stroked his gray goatee, his lips moved quickly, murmured something, thought for a moment, and then re-started. Open your mouth.

"Master, this road should be the road to the land of Shu."

Soon, the two consecutive days of spring rain came out of the woods and stopped, the sun broke through the clouds and cast on the foot of the mountain. For two days, a donkey and a toad were resting and cooking under the tree next to the mountain road. The direction is marked, and I silently calculate how many miles I walked in one morning.

"Following this road, there are about 50 miles to Wanhe County, which is just right for us to stay and rest."

Then he cast his eyes on Wang Banxia who was eating pancakes: "Can Cheng En go?"

"The disciple is also a cultivator, how can he not even go this far?" Wang Chengen swallowed the pancake, laughed a few times, raised his gray head, and looked outside the shade of the tree.

"Master, don't worry, Cheng En will never slow down the journey."

Taoist Toad held the small bowl and drank gruel, glanced at the old man, hummed, but didn't speak.

Lu Liangsheng scooped up a bowl of gruel and handed it to the half-blind man. He also sat down on the stone casually, took a sip of the porridge water, and suddenly his hanging arms stopped, and he heard the faint sound of the shafts in his ears.

Wang Banyan, who was on the opposite side of the bonfire, had an unusually sensitive hearing, so he naturally heard it.

"Master, it seems that someone passed by here, maybe a business traveler."

Lu Liangsheng hummed, he thought so too, not long after, people shouted and whips twitched from below the hill, as if the wheels were stuck in a mud pit.

"Work harder!" "One, two... work harder!"

"Push from behind, the horse can't hold it anymore."

"Just unload the goods first, so that the carriage is light enough to go up. After we get out of the mud pit and go up the hillside, we can load the goods again."

Hearing the yelling and the neighing of the pack horse, Lu Liangsheng walked to the edge of the hill with the bowl in his hand, and saw two men below holding the reins, or the rope on the cart, and two people behind the cart were pushing, and the cart rushed up. , a hooded yelling and whipping draft horse.

Judging by the accent, he is not from Shu.

'Just after a spring rain, the road surface is soft and muddy... I can help them. '

Lu Liangsheng raised his right hand, brushed his wide sleeve towards the carriage on the slope below, a gust of breeze blew, and the four men pulling and pushing the cart suddenly felt relieved. As if he had taken the wrong medicine, he kicked his hooves excitedly, pulling the car body and rushing straight up the hillside.

"Hey, hold on!" "The horse is startled!"

At this time, someone found a young man in a white robe standing there on the hillside, his robe fluttering in the wind, holding a bowl in his hand, looking strange.

However, when the carriage was still on duty, the pack horse would not leave. The coachman was sweating profusely when the cart ran up, and he sat down and panted heavily. Gone.

The four people at the bottom of the slope ran up at this time, and they were also relieved to see the coachman, the carriage stopped there safely.

"It's really the blessing of Grandpa Mountain God." "Otherwise I'm going to die."

"But it's really strange. I couldn't go up for a long time, and I ran uphill in the blink of an eye..."

After the four men and the driver inspected the goods, they remembered the young master they had just seen, only to find that the other party had already sat under a tree by the road ahead, with a bonfire and an iron pot, and it was obvious that he was also on his way.

"Five interrupt one or two."

When the five people drove the carriage over, Lu Liangsheng put down the bowls and chopsticks, smiled and got up, walked up, and saluted them.

"Can I find out, Wanhe County is going there by this road?"

The turning shaft of the chariot slowed down, and the man driving the chariot looked at the gentle and polite young man in front of him, a blind old man and an old donkey beside him, and he probably didn't think he was a villain.

He bowed his hand and replied, "That's right. Young Master, if you walk along this road, you will reach Wanhe County, and you will be there in the afternoon."

"Those people also went to Wanhe County, right?"

Suddenly, an old voice sounded from the side, and the five business travelers turned their heads to see the blind old man who was with the scholar, his eyes half closed, and he was nodding his head to look at the foothill forest outside the hillside, the white goatee was slightly stroking in the wind, quite A bit of a fairy tale.

There was some hesitation when I originally wanted to reject the scholar.

"This old man looks like a tall man..." "That's right, our car got stuck in a pit just now, could it be that this old man cast a fairy spell?"

"The bad guys can't see it."

"Anyway, it's just two people, so there's no need to hurt..."

Hearing the rustling of the five people talking, Wang Banblin couldn't help but straighten up, his ancient well without waves made it even more mysterious.

"I happen to know some strange skills, and I can tell the fortune of the few people going out. If you go to Wanhe County, you might as well bring me with you, how about it?"

The five men looked at each other, and it was really nothing to bring an old man with them, and it could be counted as a divination, and the fortune of divination was not bad.

"Master, Cheng En is taking their carriage."

"go Go."

Lu Liangsheng didn't care about anything, he watched him get into the carriage, chatted with the five business travelers, got on the old donkey and followed their carriage along the mountain road, arriving in Wanhe County almost at dusk.

The not-so-high city wall stretches on both sides of the city gate, and soldiers in full armor can be seen patrolling between the wall stacks. Not far from the city wall, the carriage coming from the official road stopped, and Wang Banyan got down with a red face and a smile. Saying goodbye to those five people, it is quite a gentleman's demeanor.

"Remember what the old man said, don't drink alcohol for two days, and don't quarrel with others."

After hearing that the other party had left, he turned around and ran towards the nearby old donkey, took the wooden stick thrown by Lu Liangsheng with a smile, followed the donkey, and entered the city gate with the word "Wanhe" written on it together.

Compared with the silence in the forest, the bustle and bustle in the city seems like a world away.

Between the low eaves on both sides, the long street is bustling with pedestrians, stepping on the green and wet floor tiles, men and their wives strolling through the street, on the wheelbarrows pushed by children, children watch with envy the rows of colorful stalls inserted in the roadside stalls. Sugar figurines, blue flags and streamers in the past, noisy teahouses, waiters with long-mouthed teapots, filling a table of tea guests, and yelling at the door speaking the unique dialect of Shu to attract passers-by on the street .

"Let's have some tea. Wanhe's newly made honey tea, come and drink it. It's so tight that it's a bit bitter in the mouth. After a while, it loses its sweetness. It's not good. I won't charge you Wen Wenzi."

He was used to the southern and northern dialects. When he arrived in Sichuan, Lu Liangsheng felt a little dizzy when he heard the words from here. He could still hear some words clearly, but some special words could not be solved by painting spells.

There are also Sichuan specialties on the street. I walked the street with my donkey and my big apprentice, and found an inn to go in. Fortunately, the guy in the store can speak the southern dialect, so that Lu Liangsheng and Wang Ban are not blinded. foggy.

Handing over the old donkey to the clerk to send samples in the backyard, feeding some fine food, and opening a two-bed room, Wang Banyan seemed to be paralyzed, covered his head and fell on it, stretching comfortably.

In the bookshelf, Taoist Toad dragged his cigarette stick weakly out of the small door of the cubicle, yawned, smacked his lips, and looked at the apprentice who was making the bed with drooping eyes.

"When will you eat? Later, I will order some Sichuan specialties for my teacher to try."

"Master, do you want to go down together?"

Lu Liangsheng spread out the quilt, wiped off some dust that might be on it, went over to wash his face with water, turned around and said something, the toad over there climbed onto the bed, lay on it, rubbed off the pillow with arches and stretches, and carried the scholar on his back. The hand shook.

"I won't go as a teacher, so as not to scare others."

"What about Cheng En?"

Looking at the other bed, Wang Banyan had already fallen asleep while hugging the quilt.

Lu Liangsheng shook his head, opened the door with a creak, and walked to the lobby on the first floor. It was past the meal time, and there were not many people eating. There were only a few tables of people eating and drinking. .

"Guest officer, what do you want to order? Local food, or hometown food? We can cook for you at home. We don't like crowds, and it's fine to bring the younger ones to your room later."

Thinking of Master's instruction just now, Lu Liangsheng sat down at a table next to him and said, "Try Sichuan and Sichuan dishes."

That guy was about to report the name of the dishes, when suddenly at the gate opposite, another guy ran in panting with a vegetable basket, went straight past Lu Liangsheng's table, and went to the shopkeeper who was dozing off with his chin propped up at the counter, talking and Pointing to the door.

"The shopkeeper... Li... Li Langzhong is back, and he is in the clinic..."

The shopkeeper, who was awakened from the start, still wanted to get angry. He suddenly heard this, raised the hem of his robe and rushed to the backyard. Lu Liangsheng looked curiously, and asked the waiter beside him who reported the name of the dish.

"What happened to your shopkeeper?"

"It's not my shopkeeper, it's the shopkeeper's father who got sick." The waiter put a rag on his shoulders and said without thinking, "Mr. Li is well-known in our city, and he has excellent medical skills. The eunuch, please go to see a doctor, just come back now, the shopkeeper is so impatient, go and take my father to see a doctor."

"I see."

Lu Liangsheng nodded. After a while, all the dishes were served. He asked the waiter to store them in the guest room. He was also curious about a doctor, so he inquired about the location of the clinic, and followed the address the waiter said. Crowds of people came and went on the street, and one side was full of people. Among them, many coughing and groaning patients, with pale faces or red eyes, were supported by family members and waited outside for treatment.

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly in this unsurprising scene, and the Xuanyuan sword scabbard on his waist, which was used as a pendant, was shaking.

He looked at the door of the medical hall, and obviously felt a cloud of yin.

"A ghost?"

Under the cuffs, two fingers together, and the moment he pinched out the Jue, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Master Lu?"

Lu Liangsheng let go of his orders, and when he turned around, he saw a man dressed in black, with a scruffy beard, standing at the door of a shop with two long knives crossed behind his back.

The bamboo hat was raised slightly, revealing the face, it was Zuo Zhengyang

Chapter 3 and Six of Ghost Doctor

In the mountain county town, the low walls and low eaves are woven with water drops. It has just rained, and from time to time it drips from the eaves, silently falling to both sides of the street, crawling on the moss-covered floor tiles, and people's footsteps pass by.

"Why is Qianwei here?"

Lu Liangsheng went to the side of the street, stretched out his hand to invite the one-armed man who had taken off his bamboo hat and carried two long knives on his back. The two of them walked to the nearby tea shop together, and asked the waiter to make two cups of tea.

"Zuo was tricked by Yan Chixia."

On the opposite side, Zuo Zhengyang leaned the two long knives against the wall with two 'Dangdang' sounds, causing several tables in the tea shop to look sideways, glanced at the weapons by the wall, and probably saw that the other party was from the Jianghu, and continued to chat Drinking tea, but the voice of the conversation has become much quieter, and there is still a table with tea money, and they left in a hurry.

"Tricked by him?" Lu Liangsheng couldn't help laughing. When he was in Lanruo Temple, he had seen Zuo Zhengyang pull Yan Chixia into the Fire Praying Sect, which would be strange.

Zuo Zhengyang laughed lightly, his beard stubble spread sparsely around his mouth and chin, talking about his journey to Sichuan.

"There was a swordsman with the surname Xiahou, who originally asked Yan Chixia for a martial arts competition, but he lied to him and said, 'There is a man with a one-armed sword that is superb, and should be the best in the world. Since ancient times, swords have been like fire and water...... ’ Then, that guy found a certain Zuo, came to Yancheng for a martial arts competition, and spread a lot of hero posts, so that knights from Shu and Shaanxi came to watch the martial arts competition.”

Having said that, the laughter got louder, rubbed his stubble, took a sip of tea, and looked at the scholar opposite.

"Could it be that Mr. Lu also received a hero post to watch the competition?"

Lu Liangsheng had heard about martial arts competitions before, but after all, it was just ordinary Jianghu people who wanted to compete for power and had no interest in it.

"That's not true. I came to Shuzhong for other reasons. I don't know when Qianwei competed with that person?"

"The fourth day of April."

"Qingming?" Lu Liangsheng was slightly stunned, looked at Zuo Zhengyang's nonchalant expression, and said with a chuckle: "That man seems to be deciding between life and death."

No matter how high the swordsman with the double surname Xiahou is, he is not the opponent of Zuo Zhengyang who now has the Fire Lingzhu. Back then, mortals dared to fight against strange monsters like Purdue Cihang. into practice.

After chatting casually about the competition for a while, Lu Liangsheng also asked about the other party's practice, and pointed out some places with his ear, after all, the latter had just stepped into the Tao, and even though he was skilled in martial arts, he was naturally not as good as a scholar in this respect.

"...Qian Wei used qi and blood to nourish the spirit beads. The fire spirit that feeds back should not be instilled in the limbs and bones first, but accumulated in the dantian first, just like the practice of martial arts in the past, and the slightest bit will enter the internal organs and give birth It has its own magic power, but it also has disadvantages, Qianwei Xiu was single at that time, so he could only use the fire spirit energy."

The implication is that the technique can be used only if it touches the zodiac of fire, Zuo Zhengyang didn't care, and waved it with one hand.