Hit the yin and yang road

When Chen Yang came back from Canton, he always felt that the atmosphere in the branch office was inexplicable, since he had only been in Canton for half a month.Mao Xiaoli, Kou Xuanling and Zhang Qiudao almost disappeared, running outside all day long.After dinner, he ran away in a hurry, as if there were many important things to do.

Kou Xuanling and Zhang Qiudao are lucky to talk and often take orders.Mao Xiaoli has been practicing Taoism so hard recently, she should have the most leisure time, but the fact is the opposite, she often disappears.Chen Yang called Ma Shanfeng who was going to walk to the square of the community to dance with his wife in the square dance: "Uncle Ma, what orders have they taken recently? One or two are too busy to eat."

Ma Shanfeng said: "No order. July and a half is coming soon, and they all have to go back to worship their ancestors. Although July and a half is a day when local officials forgive sins and the gates of ghosts are opened, most of the fierce ghosts have ghosts." The guards don’t dare to make trouble. Some young people are ignorant and rush against lonely ghosts, but there are many folk celestial masters and witches who can help exorcise ghosts. Therefore, many celestial masters from the family of celestial masters will rush home in July and a half Mao Xiaoli, Zhang Qiudao and Kou Xuanling are busy going back to worship the ancestors."

Ma Shanfeng didn't mention it, but Chen Yang almost forgot that the three colleagues in the sub-bureau had very strong backgrounds. They were all from the family of celestial masters. They each occupied an important position in Taoism and made great contributions to the history of Taoism.Chen Yang: "They all want to go back?"

"Go back. Mao Xiaoli went back to Maoshan, Zhang Qiudao went back to Longhushan, and Kou Xuanling went back to Pingcheng. Now they are all preparing their luggage, and the leave slip has been left with me for two days. I will trouble you, Yangyang, to stamp your approval later." Ma Shanfeng said He wanted to leave after finishing, his wife was waiting, and if he was late, his wife might dance Cha Cha with which Lao Wang.

"Hey wait, Uncle Ma, what do you call me?"

Ma Shanfeng looked puzzled, and after a while he realized: "Yangyang, if you don't like it, there is Chen Xiaoyang, which one do you want to listen to?"

Chen Yang:"???"

Ma Shanfeng chuckled: "The elders in the celestial masters call it that. They know about your fight with Wu Lingjiu in the uninhabited village. Although you didn't confront the Wu Lingjiu directly, your attitude and spirit are commendable. Don't worry, they just like to shout Nicknames to show closeness." In fact, the old disrespectful group learned about Du Shuo's relationship with Chen Yang, and heard that Du Shuo often called him 'Yangyang' and 'Chen Xiaoyang', so they followed suit.

When Chen Yanggang wanted Ma Shanfeng to stop calling that, he had already slipped to the door.Fatty jumped down from the wall and saw the leftovers on the table: "Chen Xiaoyang, my fish?" Because of his baldness, Fatty is reluctant to appear in front of people recently, and often waits until dark to sneak over to find Xiao Chen. Dried fish is fed.

Hearing this, Chen Yang crossed his arms and said, "Why do you call me human? You should lose weight, big fat."

Fatty flicked his tail: "I've lost weight. After a trip to Guangdong, I found that I lost weight when I came back."

Chen Yang brought out a large pot of dried fish: "How thin is it?"

"Two taels." Chen Yang immediately took back the dried fish, picked up two thumb-sized fish with his chopsticks, and said, "Dinner." Then he returned to the kitchen with a large pot of dried fish, and Big Fatty picked up two dried fish in his mouth. Chasing after Chen Yang: "Didn't you lose weight by two taels? If you lose two taels, you are also thin. You can't discriminate... Didn't you say that Xiao Yugan was enough?"

Fatty feels sad about being cheated.When I first met it, it was only [-] catties, but it was only because the food at the branch office was so good that I accidentally gained [-] catties, and everyone no longer loved it.Attack with weight when meeting, force it to lose weight.Now that it has lost weight, not only did it not hug and feed the small dried fish, but it actually wanted to skip food!

Chen Yang earnestly said: "Big Fatty, which cat have you seen weighed fifty catties?"

"...I am a cat ghost." What's more, it has lived for more than 1000 years. What's wrong with a social cat over 1000 years old?Only fifty catties!

Chen Yang thought for a moment: "You're right." Fatty is a cat ghost, so would he be afraid of cholesterol and high blood pressure?So he put a large bowl of dried fish in the kitchen back on the table for Big Fatty. Mao Xiaoli went downstairs and saw the small dried fish, so she sat down at the table automatically, ignoring Big Fatty's indifferent eyes, picked up the small dried fish and gnawed on it. .

Mao Xiaoli: "Big Fatty, would you like a glass of wine?"

Fatty withdrew his indifferent eyes and drank a bottle of wine with Mao Xiaoli.Mao Xiaoli didn't think there was anything wrong with eating dried fish and drinking catnip wine.I have run out of the imported red wine for cats, and now I have bought two boxes of catnip wine online.The most frightening thing was that Mao Xiaoli and the others would drink these wines with Big Fatty, and after drinking, they thought it was okay.

Mao Xiaoli said to Chen Yang: "Brother Chen, Kou Xuanling and the others told me that they will go back to worship their ancestors in July and a half, and the elders in the family will invite you there. My grandfather and father also asked me to invite you to Maoshan. What do you think?"

Chen Yang sat down and said, "It's okay. Anyway, I won't take orders in July and a half, and Dushuo is also busy. I don't have anything to do, so you can go and have a look."

Mao Xiaoli: "Maoshan, Longhushan and Hepingcheng, where do you want to go?"

"I won't be able to make a decision for a while." During the conversation, Kou Xuanling walked in from the outside, still holding a mobile phone in his hand and seemed to be reluctant to part with the call.Chen Yang raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Isn't Kou Xuanling worshiping the patriarch at this time?" Looking at the blushing Kou Xuanling, he said hesitantly, "Kou Xuanling...is he in love?"

Mao Xiaoli whispered mysteriously: "Did you see it? The whole branch has seen it, but Kou Xuanling is still retorting that it's just brothers. Tsk tsk, listen, brother. Don't normal people call friends? Hehe, brotherhood, we I understand, he is the only one who is still pure and straight. He also postponed the worship of the patriarch in order to date his brother."

Chen Yang opened his eyes wide: "Brother? A man?"

"Yes. On the first day, Kou Xuanling exposed the other party's gender." Mao Xiaoli was heartbroken: "Kou Kou, who is pure and straight, don't be deceived by others. Do you know that the other party still refuses to come to our branch office? We said we would Look at the other party for Kou Xuanling, but the other party keeps refusing. You know, Kou Xuanling is so straightforward, maybe he will be deceived."

Kou Xuanling stood behind Mao Xiaoli and kicked towards the chair she was sitting on.Mao Xiaoli looked like she had eyes on the back of her head. With her palms on the table, she turned over and stood on top of the table and squatted side by side with Fatty: "Kou Xuanling, you are getting more and more thief."

Kou Xuanling sneered: "You arranged my affairs in front of me, it's fine if you didn't break your leg."

Mao Xiaoli made faces at him, and Kou Xuanling said to Chen Yang: "Don't listen to her nonsense, he is my brother. He is very nice, very nice, and treats me well. We hit it off right away, don't think so dirty like her."

Chen Yang smiled gently: "Understood." As soon as Kou Xuanling went upstairs, he immediately said to Mao Xiaoli: "He didn't hang up the phone when he went upstairs, and we hit it off right away... There is a problem."

Mao Xiaoli: "That's right, even Uncle Ma can see the smile of the mysterious mother-in-law. I have known Uncle Ma for many years, and he has the most vicious eyes on people. At that time, Zhang Qiudao and I asked Kou Xuanling if he was in love, but Uncle Ma didn't answer. But that smile is the same as when I saw you and the game for the first time."

Chen Yang was surprised: "Uncle Ma saw me and Brother Du's smiles for the first time?"

"In this way," Mao Xiaoli slowly showed a smile, which contained complex emotions such as 'I don't say anything', 'Don't say anything, I understand', 'The relationship is unusual', etc. Chen Yang's eyelids twitched: "Yes Not so exaggerated?"

"Really. Uncle Ma is like this, he is the most thief."

Chen Yang changed the subject: "I see that you have been very skilled recently, and your response is very quick."

Mao Xiaoli really followed Chen Yang's topic: "Why don't you go home to worship your ancestors, and practice martial arts and Taoism quickly. Otherwise, you will talk to the seven aunts and eight aunts after you go back, and there will be all kinds of comparisons. Don't look at the celestial master The aristocratic family doesn't have this kind of gossip, they are all ordinary people. Knowing that my father's lineage has to wait for enlightenment, he insists on talking about it."

Chen Yang didn't have these troubles, so Mao Xiaoli looked him up and down, and leaned closer: "Brother Chen, why don't you go to Pingcheng? Just go to see Kou Xuanling's 'brother' along the way, anyway, you have to go to the ancestral court of Longhu Mountain in October, so you don't have to go Go once. I might as well go to Pingcheng first, and I think if you go back to Maoshan with me, they will definitely think you are my boyfriend. If the bureau finds out, I will definitely—'Kacha'."

Chen Yang was amused: "Brother Du is not so cruel."

"Tsk tsk, pay attention to rectify the name of the bureau." Mao Xiaoli shook her head and sighed, hugging the fat man and sighing: "We are both single dogs, and we only get fat by eating dog food every day."

Fatty: "I'm sorry, all I eat is loving cat food."

"!!! Fatty, you can actually say Fa!" Mao Xiaoli was so frightened that her pronunciation was not correct.Fatty rolled his eyes and drew a clear line: "Please note that you and I are not in the same country. You are single, and my cat girlfriends have been all over China for 1000 years. There are purebreds, mixed races, domestic and foreign."

"Cats...should have normal aesthetics, right?" Mao Xiaoli laughed loudly, pointing at Big Fatty and said, "What does Cat Girlfriend like about you?"

Chen Yang: "Don't say that, Xiao Li." He looked at Big Fatty Roshan: "Maybe... it's a sense of security."

Big Fatty took a small piece of dried fish and left them, Chen Yang hurriedly coaxed Big Fatty back: "Don't bother you, eat." Turning around, he said to Mao Xiaoli: "When are you going to leave?"

"There are still a few days left, and I will leave the day after tomorrow. Zhang Qiudao has already started to pack his things, and he will probably leave tomorrow. He is far away from the imperial capital, and he is one of the most capable members of Zhang's family. He should go back early to meet his elders. Kou Xuanling is late. Well, it’s in the next province anyway.”

Chen Yang: "I'll stamp your leave form later, and tell Kou Xuanling by the way." In the evening, Kou Xuanling came to knock on the door by himself, and Chen Yang opened the door to let him into the room.

What Kou Xuanling was talking about was that the elders in the family invited Chen Yang to the ancestral court in Pingcheng, and Chen Yang agreed.By the way, I asked him, "Just finished worshiping the patriarch?"

Kou Xuanling: "Yes. I came back late."

Chen Yang nodded to show that he knew, and didn't ask much until Kou Xuanling left.In fact, Mao Xiaoli told him before that Kou Xuanling came back so late recently, it seemed that he was going out with that 'brother', so she postponed the worship of the patriarch by an hour.This was completely unimaginable before, after all, they all thought that Kou Xuanling would live with the patriarch for the rest of his life.

Kou Xuanling asked him: "Does Du Ju agree? Or does he also follow?"

Chen Yang shook his head: "No, he has a lot of things going on there. After all, it's the time when the magistrate pardons the crime and the gate of hell is opened, and the situation needs to be stabilized."

Kou Xuanling is the only one in the sub-bureau other than Chen Yang who knows Du Shuo's identity, so he knows why Chen Yang said Du Shuo was busy.The gate of ghosts is wide open, and all the ghosts in the underworld flock to the underworld. Naturally, this is the busiest time for Fengdu.

A few days later, Chen Yang closed the door of the branch office.He and Kou Xuanling were the last to leave the sub-bureau, Zhang Qiudao left early, then Mao Xiaoli, and even Ma Shanfeng brought his family back home to worship their ancestors.For their celestial masters, July and a half is the time to go home to worship ancestors, build graves or move bones for burial.

Only Chen Yang didn't worship his ancestors in July and a half, nor did he burn paper money.Because he already knew that his relatives had been reincarnated, except for Grandpa Wu.Speaking of which, he hasn't chatted with Grandpa Wu for a long time, maybe this time he can chat with him in time for the July Half Ghost Festival.

After Chen Yang got into the car, he found a young man sitting in the passenger seat. The young man had no sense of existence, but when he noticed it, he found that he couldn't ignore it at all.The young man was about 25 years old, with long hair and wearing a new moon-white Tang suit.The side face is extremely handsome, as if he is a person walking out of a painting, with a layer of ancient charm that is incompatible with modern society.

Kou Xuanling introduced the young man to Chen Yang: "He is Lu Xiuzhi, he entered the Tao of Heavenly Master, recorded it under the name of the Taoist temple, and practiced at home." Then he introduced Chen Yang to Lu Xiuzhi. "Xiuzhi also wants to go back to Pingcheng with me."

Chen Yang smiled without changing his face, and when they turned their heads to look at the road, he took out his mobile phone that kept reminding him of messages, and clicked on the WeChat group 'Caring for the lifelong event of Lao Kou'.The name of the group was created by Mao Xiaoli, and the group was established by Ma Shanfeng. Zhang Qiudao was responsible for pulling Chen Yang into it and doing ideological work for him.

The 67th generation of Zhang Tianshi: [I heard that Lao Kou brought his 'brother' back to his hometown in Pingcheng to meet his parents? ]

Hehe Mao Daxian: [Zhang Qiudao, haven't you returned to Longhu Mountain long ago? ]

The 67th generation of Tianshi Zhang: [Uncle Ma told me. ]

Ma Shanfeng is long overdue—an old man of Buddhist origin: [My friend told me. ]

friend?Ma Shanfeng has friends all over the world.Chen Yang: [You are all very concerned about the major events in Lao Kou's life. ] One or two went home to worship the ancestors and did not forget to keep an eye on them.

Mao Xiaoli and Zhang Qiudao didn't reply for a long time, but Ma Shanfeng replied: [Old Kou is not emotionally enlightened.He is easy to be deceived, so you should pay more attention to his 'brother'. ]

Ma Shanfeng's eyes are poisonous, so he can judge people well.He has not met Lu Xiuzhi yet, but based on Kou Xuanling's reaction and getting along with him, he infers that something is wrong with Lu Xiuzhi.At present, the purpose of the other party cannot be determined, but the point of attention is always correct.

Chen Yang replied with an 'OK' gesture, and then described Lu Xiuzhi's appearance and demeanor: [It doesn't look like a bad person, with peaceful eyes, not like a violent person.His eyes are calm, not like harboring evil intentions. ] The most important thing is that whenever Kou Xuanling speaks, Lu Xiuzhi will listen attentively and look at Kou Xuanling with smiles in his eyes.

Kou Xuanling looked at Lu Xiuzhi, and there was a smile in his eyes that he didn't even notice.The atmosphere given by these two people has excluded Chen Yang.The next step was to go to the airport, Kou Xuanling went to get the boarding pass, while Chen Yang and Lu Xiuzhi took care of the luggage.

Chen Yang tried to talk to Lu Xiuzhi, but Kou Xuanling was not involved, just talking about Taoism.Unknowingly, the chat got deeper and deeper, and Lu Xiuzhi seemed to be quite familiar with the magic of ghosts.To Chen Yang's surprise, Kou Xuanling asked them to take their luggage and check it in.

After checking in the luggage and getting the boarding pass, Kou Xuanling gave the registration card to Chen Yang: "Your seat is not connected with us, it is three or four rows away. I originally wanted three seats connected together, but at most there are only three The two are connected together."

Chen Yang took the boarding pass, looked at Kou Xuanling who lined up with Lu Xiuzhi without even thinking about it, and Lu Xiuzhi who smiled after listening to his seat, and raised his eyebrows: " It's okay." Before boarding the cabin, Chen Yang was typing in the group to expose the old bandit's nature of valuing sex over friends.

[See who dares to say that Lao Kou Ganggang is straight, obviously the number of paragraphs is very high. ]

Mao Xiaoli and the others sighed, they didn't expect Lao Kou to be such a person and said that they needed to collect enough evidence, and entrusted Chen Yang with the heavy responsibility of exposing Lao Kou.After turning off the phone, Chen Yang got on the plane, and found that Kou Xuanling's description was quite subtle, and the distance between him and the two of them was more than three or four rows away.Because of this distance, Chen Yang disagrees with Kou Xuanling's 'brother' relationship.

The plane arrived at Pingcheng Airport, and then transferred to Kou's ancestral home.Pingcheng is an ancient city with many ancient towns.The Kou family's ancestral home is in a Taoist temple in an ancient town. The Taoist temple is not built like a Taoist temple, but more like an ancient mansion, quietly hidden deep in the small town.

The three of Kou Xuanling got out of the car, and Kou Xuanling knocked on the door first.Someone opened the door from the inside, and when they saw Kou Xuanling, they shouted, "Fifth Young Master Kou is back?"

"I'm back, Uncle Ping." After Kou Xuanling responded, seeing that Uncle Ping still wanted to lead them in, he said directly: "Uncle Ping, you are busy with your work. I will just bring my friends in to meet my parents."

Ping Bo smiled and nodded, without insisting.Kou Xuanling led the two from the courtyard to the front hall, and said as he walked: "Ping Bo has been working in our house for more than 20 years, and he is used to calling us young master, but it is not necessary. I am not ranked fifth. I have two sisters, but I have many cousins."

The front hall is a dojo, through the front hall and the door to the small hall behind, it is relatively quiet.As soon as Kou Xuanling entered the small hall, he found that all the elders of Kou's family were inside, with a dignified look on their faces.When Kou's father saw Kou Xuanling, his expression relaxed a lot, but he asked him to stand aside after only asking a few times.When I saw Chen Yang, I said a few more words of greeting. Beside Kou's father, there were several brothers and elders of Kou's family. Seeing Chen Yang was also very pleasant.

On the contrary, Lu Xiuzhi became non-existent after entering the small hall, making people ignore his existence inexplicably.

Beitian Shidao had no outstanding disciples since the patriarch Kou Qianzhi, and then gradually declined because of the defeat of Buddhism and Taoism.Therefore, the development of Beitianshidao has evolved into many branches, and the Kou family, as a family-style family of celestial masters, is more representative in the Beitianshidao school.

So the Kou family's ancestral family was all Kou family members.

Because Kou Xuanling's friends came, Kou's elders no longer frown, but warmly entertained them.It's just that both Chen Yang and Kou Xuanling can see that they have a lot of concerns. This is a family matter of the Kou family, and it's not easy for Chen Yang to intervene.That night Kou Xuanling chatted with Kou's father for a long time, and when he came out, he also looked frowning.

Chen Yang rested on the bed after taking a shower, and sent a message to Du Shuo to report his safety as usual.After sending it, I suddenly wondered whether Fengdu had a signal, and whether Dushuo could receive the message.There should be, otherwise Dushuo can come back in seconds?

Just as I thought about it, I saw Du Shuo's reply, a full stop.

After Chen Yang saw Du Shuo's reply, he put down his phone and went to sleep with peace of mind. He had no dreams until dawn.At dawn, Chen Yang heard noisy footsteps outside, opened his eyes suddenly, got out of bed and opened the door.Just in time, Kou Xuanling with a solemn face came over, followed by Lu Xiuzhi who had almost no sense of presence.

Chen Yang: "What happened?"

Kou Xuanling stopped in front of Chen Yang: "Something happened to Bijia Mountain, and the elders of the family are rushing over to see it."

Bijia Mountain is the ancestral tomb of the Kou family, almost all of the ancestral tombs of the Kou family are buried in Bijia Mountain.Something happened to Bijia Mountain, no wonder Kou Xuanling looked solemn.Thinking about yesterday when Kou's elders gathered in the small hall, their faces seemed to be clouded with gloom, probably because of the Bijiashan incident.

There is an old saying: the life of the living is determined by the burial.The first thing in Fengshui is the ancestral grave, let alone the ancestral grave of such a big family as the Kou family.Once something happens to the ancestral grave, I am afraid that the entire Kou family will be in turmoil.

Chen Yang: "I'll go and have a look too."

"Okay. Let's go together." Kou Xuanling stepped forward, but almost sprained because of his haste, Lu Xiuzhi supported him and whispered: "Be careful, don't be too hasty." Kou Xuanling smiled and walked out .

Looking at Lu Xiuzhi's back, Chen Yang felt that he was very familiar.It's not about looks or temperament, it's about feeling.Lu Xiuzhi suddenly turned his head to meet Chen Yang's gaze, showing a gentle and slightly indifferent smile.

Chen Yang's eyebrows twitched, feeling that the feeling was more familiar.

Bijia Mountain is outside the small town, and the distance is not too far. It takes half an hour to walk there.Seen from a distance, the shape of the pen holder mountain looks like the gesture of a mage pinching his fingers. This kind of mountain is called a mage's pen in Feng Shui.

If an ancestor is buried in the feng shui bureau of the mage pen, there will be eminent Taoists or eminent monks among the descendants.This pattern has always been the feng shui favorite of the family of heavenly masters.

Bijia Mountain is surrounded by many peaks with lush vegetation.There is mountain spring water flowing out in the middle, and there are rivers under the flowing water above, and the spring water is clear.Standing on the hillside overlooking the mountains, it seems that there is still a faint mist on the dark blue peaks.The bright hall is spacious, where the wind gathers energy, and it is a treasure land of geomantic omen.Even if Bijia Mountain is not shaped like a mage's pen, it is still an excellent geomantic treasure.

When Chen Yang and the others arrived at the Kou family's ancestral grave, they saw almost all the elders of the Kou family and some younger generations present, and Kou Xuanling walked to Kou's father.Chen Yang then stepped forward and caught a glimpse of Kou's ancestral grave showing signs of collapse.Goodbye, the green grass around the ancestral grave is withered and turned black, which shows that the vitality of this place is cut off, and the earth's energy is not strong.

But it shouldn't be, because Bijia Mountain has excellent geomantic omen, and it is definitely a treasure land of geomantic omen.Looking at the rest of Bijia Mountain, it is still full of vitality. If there is no major disaster that destroys Feng Shui for at least a few decades, Bijia Mountain will definitely be full of vitality and earth energy.After careful inspection, it was found that only Kou's ancestral grave had shriveled and blackened grass and lost vitality.

The ancestral tomb collapsed for no reason, and the vegetation withered abnormally, which is an ominous sign.

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Except for July and a half which is the lunar calendar, the other months are the national calendar.