Great Sui Guoshi

Returning to his hometown this time solved the pain of missing his relatives when he went abroad for the first time, but there were also things that made Lu Liangsheng dumbfounded after returning.

The mother has been urging for an early marriage for several days. Even if she doesn't marry a wife first, at least she will take a concubine to open up branches and leaves for the old Lu family.

However, Lu Liangsheng didn't have any ideas in this regard, and he was ignorant of the relationship between men and women, not to mention that there was a jealous female ghost beside him... For the sake of other girls, he politely declined his mother's kindness.

"I was happy to come back, but now I'm afraid I can't stay any longer..."

Lu Liangsheng heard his mother nagging about this matter outside again, put down his book, sat on the side of the bed, and looked at Taoist Toad in a short jacket.

"Master, you are someone who has experienced this, what advice do you have?"

Toad lazily turned over, scratching its belly with its frog webs.

"As a teacher and cultivator, how do you know this?"

Turning his eyes to the Taoist crouching in the corner holding an unknown book, Sun Yingxian noticed that his eyes were on his back, and Sun Yingxian quickly turned around, quickly closed the book, and put it into his arms.

"Look at what I do, I haven't even met a matchmaker..."

At this time, from the portrait on the wall, there was a faint sentence: "Then why don't you hurry up?"

"Probably that's all there is to it."

Right now, Lu Liangsheng has no other choice. Another reason is that he said that he would go to the northwest to visit, and he would stop by the capital to meet his mentor. Chunwei will be on the second day of February next year, so the time is still relatively urgent.

After making up his mind, at the end of August, when the guards from the county came to announce the good news and celebrated with the whole village, he proposed the idea of ​​going to the capital with his parents that night.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Li Jinhua didn't clean up the square table, and sat down next to her son, "Why don't you wait a little longer and leave after the new year."

'cough…..'

Lu Laoshi coughed at the door, and Lu Liangsheng quickly waved his hand to his mother: "It's only a few months away from Chunwei, and I only know the direction of the capital, and I don't know how to get there. I will have to ask slowly along the way." …When we arrive in the capital, we still have to see our mentor and Lord Min, and it’s really not enough to come and go again…”

Over there, Li Jinhua was not as worried as her son was when he went out for the first time. He just sighed and went to his room to help pack his bags.

As soon as the woman left, Lu Laoshi hurried in.

"When you leave, remember to take the old donkey with you..."

Seeing Lu Liangsheng's doubts, the man rubbed his palms in embarrassment, glanced outside the room, and lowered his voice.

"Take it away, so I can exchange it for a lighter one."

Well…..

Seeing his father's embarrassed expression, the scholar nodded silently.

The first day of September.

The sky was high and the clouds were clear, so Lu Liangsheng packed up his luggage, said goodbye to his parents, led the old donkey out of the village, turned around and waved goodbye to the people who saw him off again.

On the side of the road, Sun Yingxian waited while biting a blade of grass. Two bookshelves hung behind the donkey. The door of the small pavilion opened. Taoist Toad in a small jacket crossed his legs, shaking his head along with the opera humming from the scroll on the other side.

The old donkey followed behind the scholar, stepping briskly and braying excitedly.

Heh heh heh...

Echoes in the mountains and fields.

Chapter 79 "Fairy" guides the way

Jingling and clanging, the copper bell rang on the official road.

From Hegu County to the west, among the passing business travelers and pedestrians, a scholar in a clean green robe walked leisurely by leading an old donkey.

At the back, on both sides of the donkey's back, the bookshelves swayed slightly, with a few scrolls inserted in them, and most of the luggage was in the attic under the bookshelves.

Lu Liangsheng looks simple and plain, a poor scholar with nothing of value, the only thing of value is probably the jade pendant with pearls and pisces on his waist.

On the side of the road, there was another Taoist walking with him. From time to time, he ran to the field ridge outside the road, dug out something in the mud crevices, took it to the small ditch nearby to clean it, stuffed it into a dirty leather bag, and ran back to continue walking.

On roads with few pedestrians, Taoist Toad would slip out and sit cross-legged on the head of the old donkey, with the old god embracing his arms, admiring the surrounding rural scenery.

"...The fireworks in the world are very good."

Lu Liangsheng looked back at him.

"In the past, Master came and went from high to high, and the scenery he saw was different."

The old donkey shook his mane, and the Taoist Toad above looked solemn, nodding his head and looking at the outline of the distant mountain.

"When you come to the original state of being a teacher in the future, you will naturally see that thousands of mountains and rivers are like a landscape painting, crawling under your feet. After looking at it for a long time, it is actually not as good as it is now."

"Bragging again." Sun Yingxian ran back from the other side of the field. The leather bag at his waist was heavy, and it seemed that he had harvested a lot. Daoist Toad stared at his bag, snorted, got up, walked over the donkey's back, and pulled it. The bookshelf slides into the cubicle.

"Catch less frogs, and commit crimes."

With a bang, the small compartment door was closed.

The Taoist didn't bother to care about the toad, and all the way out of Hegu County, he ate it the most happily than anyone else, clamoring for more seasoning.

Muttering a few words, Sun Yingxian walked briskly to the side of the scholar.

"I said, how does it feel to be a Juren master?"

"No."

Lu Liangsheng's words are true. Zhong Zhiyuan didn't go to hang flowers and ride horses through the streets, nor accepted the congratulations from the government office. Naturally, he didn't feel much. It's something like marrying a daughter to the farm.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Jinhua kept urging him to get married quickly.

"Right now, it's better to go to the capital early to meet with my mentor, and then travel to the northwest. It would be great if I can do something."

"There's a lot of chaos in the northwest. I'm afraid I can't finish what I have to do."

While the two of them were talking, the sound of trampling horseshoes on the road behind them and the clanging of carriage shafts approached from far away. Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to stand aside, and an old carriage passed in front of them. Beside them are four strong men on horseback, dressed in different clothes, but with swords tied around their waists.

Sun Yingxian waved his sleeves to disperse the smoke and dust.

"Run in such a hurry, rushing to reincarnate!"

At this time, it was close to noon, and the autumn sun was still a little hot. Being swept up by the dust, I lost the intention of rushing, and walked for a while. The two of us, a donkey, and Taoist Toad pushed the bookshelf away.

Just under a big tree on the side of the road, a fire was lit, and a small pot was set up to cook the meals.

The Taoist took out some loaches from his bag and shook them in front of the toad.

"A change of taste today."

Three times and two times, he skewered the loach with branches and roasted it by the fire. Lu Liangsheng took advantage of the time to spread out the Nanchen Guandao drawing, and dotted with pen and ink at his position.

"I still have to go through one state and seven counties. According to the normal pace, it will take two or three months. I'm afraid I won't be able to reach it. After eating, I'd better use magic to drive a part of it, and then walk slowly along the way."

"You can do whatever you say, just eat as a teacher."

Taoist Toad pinched the branch with his webs, turned over the loach on the string, and turned his head to look at the Taoist: "Quick, apply a little oil and sprinkle some salt, it's almost burnt."

He lifted it from the fire, leaned on the toad's face and puffed his cheeks, and blew quickly twice. He sat down beside the apprentice quite comfortably, leaning on the scholar's thigh, and took a bite of the cooked loach. His face was full of comfort. Character.

After finishing this lunch, Lu Liangsheng waved his robe to attract dirt, put out the bonfire, cleaned up the pots and bowls and turned the old donkey on, and asked the Taoist to follow him, walking slowly, in the blink of an eye, the old donkey had gone six or seven feet away .

The sky was slanting, and after passing a county town, the sides of the road became more and more desolate, and gradually even the fields could not be seen, and there was more than one official road, Lu Liangsheng weighed his way back and forth.

Then, they seemed to get lost.

"Old Sun...you came back from the northwest, don't you know the way?"

Sun Yingxian blinked in confusion, and pointed to the ground: "I don't know what to do. I used escapism to drill directly in one direction, which is much faster than your donkey."

"Okay, blame me." Lu Liangsheng put away the official drawings. Fortunately, it was not dark yet, so he got off the donkey's back, found a stone and threw it on the ground.

The stone tumbled twice, then turned abruptly, as if pointing in one direction.

The scholar patted the dust on his hands, pulled the rein and walked towards that side, the Taoist followed behind, walked for a while, and vaguely saw the outlines of several houses.

When he approached, outside the fence, an old man was standing there. He didn't know what to do, staring blankly at the sunset.

"Go and ask for directions."

Lu Liangsheng let go of the reins, walked over quickly, and arched his hands: "My old man, how can I get to Fulinzhou?"

As if the old man didn't hear, Lu Liangsheng repeated the question again, and the other party suddenly turned around and opened his mouth slightly.

"Ah..."

Lift your finger to the mountains where the path extends under your feet.

It turned out that he couldn't speak.

Lu Liangsheng didn't look at the old man much, so as not to cause misunderstandings. After thanking him, he took the old donkey and left with Sun Yingxian. After walking along the dirt road under his feet, the scholar couldn't help but look back. The old man was still standing There, with a smile on your face.

"Look at what?"

The Taoist also looked back, "That old guy feels weird."

Lu Liangsheng shook his head and continued walking.

"There is no evil spirit, nor evil spirit...Maybe the old man has a weird personality."

At this time, behind the two of them, a couple came out from the house next to the road. Seeing the old man standing in the hallway, they hurriedly stepped forward to help him back, complaining to each other.

"Father is a little demented, and you didn't take good care of him, why did you let him run out, what if he lost it?!"

"It disappeared as soon as I turned around. How did I know that you were just sleeping."

.......

The setting sun swept across the western clouds like a tide, and the mountains were dyed a bright red.

wow - wow wow -

The old crow stood on a branch and croaked. With blinking eyes, two people and a donkey were walking around below.

"Ah, I want to go back and find that old guy to settle the score!!"

Sun Yingxian's screams startled a group of birds among the withered yellow grass, and they flew into the sky in a dark mass, surrounded by dead trees and old forests, a desolate area, and a rugged path that few people walked was covered with weeds.

"Why don't you just go back and look for him, he lied to us, you can just use him for a meal!"

On the side, Lu Liangsheng didn't think too much about it, looked at the sky, and simply let go of the reins, and the old donkey still gnawed grass.

"It's getting dark, so just sleep outside for the night."

Over there, there happened to be a big rock, with a hollow space below it, which could accommodate four or five people, so he took off the pots and bowls from the bookshelf and carried them over.

"What are you doing in a daze, take a pot and cook."

The Taoist sighed, and jumped into the woods, there was a lot of crackling, and after a while, he came back with a bunch of dead branches and lit a bonfire.

After the food was cooked, the faint aroma of rice wafted up. Soon, the two of them finished eating together. Lu Liang was afraid that they would be bored, so he took out a chess set that he bought in Hegu County.

By the light of the fire, they fought with the Taoist on the chessboard, while Toad watched with his hands behind his back.

*******

The sky sank into darkness, and the sound of gold and iron clashing sounded from the road several miles away.

Bah bah bah....

Four figures on horseback and more than a dozen rushing black shadows circled and fought. In front of the guarding carriage, the horses were frightened, and with a neighing sound, they pulled the carriage and ran wildly, deviated from the road and rushed into the wilderness.

"Protect the people in the car!"

One of the four guards yelled, and the remaining three immediately left the battle group and chased after the mad carriage.

Chapter 80 Meeting a Scholar at Night, Very Human

Thin mist lingers in the wilderness, and in the dark night in the distance, there are horses neighing and people shouting,

bang——

bang bang——

The shaft rolled over the rough ground and turned wildly, and a fast horse rushed towards the carriage with a knife in hand, shouting at the driver's companion.

"Stop!"

"The horse is frightened—" the cart rushed up, and the big man holding the reins and driving the horse tilted his head anxiously.

Tread Tread...