Hit the yin and yang road

After sending Mao Xiaoli away, Zhang Qiudao returned to the sub-office calmly, nestled on the sofa and took out his mobile phone to play games. After playing for an hour, he exited the interface and clicked into WeChat, staring at Mao Xiaoli's profile picture in a daze.

Chen Yang patted him on the shoulder: "Go to barbecue together at night?"

Zhang Qiudao refused after regaining his senses: "I want to go back to my room to rest." After he finished speaking, he got up and went upstairs, turned around halfway and said, "Brother Chen, is my talent bad?" That sounded like a sign that he was in a state of confusion.

Chen Yang: "It depends on who you compare with. In the eyes of most celestial masters, you are extremely talented. Compared with other celestial masters, you are already good enough."

Zhang Qiudao was silent for a while, then said: "I'm thinking that if I have better talent and stronger Taoism, I can better protect Mao Xiaoli. She doesn't need to be enlightened because of this incident."

Chen Yang shrugged: "I don't know what happened between you two, but Xiao Li will always get enlightened, but sooner or later. This incident is just an opportunity. Thinking about it from another angle, it is an opportunity for you to become Xiaoli enlightened."

Zhang Qiudao: "Maybe."

Kou Xuanling walked up to Chen Yang and asked in a low voice, "How is it?"

"I'm in a low mood, it's hard to say." Chen Yang felt troubled with his hands behind his back, and the emotional problems of the members would also make him very worried as the director. "I don't know what Xiaoli and Qiudao are talking about on WeChat, and I don't know where they have progressed."

Kou Xuanling asked back in surprise: "Have they started?" How can there be any progress without starting?

Chen Yang said in a choked voice: "Maybe Qiudao confessed his love on WeChat. Besides, he was so obviously hurt by Xiaoli, so if he is not stupid, he will know. And after that, Xiaoli's attitude towards Qiudao was very uncomfortable. Even if Qiudao didn't confess, she could still guess." arrive."

"Then maybe, Mao Xiaoli is a straight girl! If you don't know, she absolutely doesn't know!" Kou Xuanling insisted that Mao Xiaoli didn't realize Zhang Qiudao's feelings.

Chen Yang disagreed: "Aren't you with Lu Xiuzhi?"

"What do you mean by that?"

Chen Yang snorted, but remained silent.Even a steel straight man like Lao Kou can bend, let alone Mao Xiaoli who is not enlightened.Just because Mao Xiaoli has no intention of falling in love, it doesn't mean that she is so dull that she can't see Zhang Qiudao's obvious feelings.But it was precisely because of this speculation that Chen Yang felt something was wrong.If Mao Xiaoli saw Zhang Qiudao's feelings and pretended not to know, then it was 100% suspended.

Kou Xuanling said: "I have to buy some wine to accompany the barbecue at night. Which wine do you prefer?"

"Liquor." Chen Yang replied, and then looked at the list that Kou Xuanling had written down. There were drinks that other people in the branch wanted to drink.He said: "Baijiu, cold beer, and wine. There is no need for fruit wine. Let Uncle Ma contribute a jar and keep it cold. By the way, I have to buy some fruit-flavored drinks for Kaixuan. Prepare a few bottles for cats." Cat brand red wine, Big Fatty will definitely not leave tonight."

Kou Xuanling added some of the wines he mentioned to the list, and then said: "Would you like to buy some fruit beer? Two of the four female hairs in the tomb of Kaixuan came here. They and Ji Jiang still drink fruit bars, or you can drink fruit beer." Try fruit beer."

"The fruit beer sold outside is definitely not as good as the fruit wine made by Uncle Ma himself, so just buy a little and taste it fresh. For white wine, choose a better brand. My old man doesn't like barbecue very much, it's greasy and irritating. But I like to drink. It looks like a small drink, and you can drink half a bottle in less than half an hour." Chen Yang is quite disgusted with this: "The taste of an old man."

Hearing this, Kou Xuanling also hesitated: "Would our Azhi's taste be the same as Duju's?"

"According to my observation, Uncle Ma's taste is the same as Lao Du's." In other words, all old men have the same taste.

Kou Xuanling: "Then I'll buy more."

"Okay." Chen Yang replied: "The meat, vegetables and barbecue sauce are all ready. Ji Jiang and the others have already started to arrange the venue, and Aunt Ma will come over tonight, and it seems that she will bring friends. It will be more lively. good."

Kou Xuanling: "It's okay, I buy a lot of things. Ji Jiang is thoughtful and well prepared."

Chen Yang took out the second candy of the day from his pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and threw it into his mouth unwilling to chew: "I want to know what happened to Xiaoli and Qiudao when we were in the Wei Family Collection Hall?"

Kou Xuanling shook his head: "I don't know. We were separated for a while. At that time, the collection hall had become a passage connecting the world of the underworld and the endless hell, far away. I separated from Mao Xiaoli as soon as I turned around. Tell me that Zhang Qiudao also separated from him halfway. Turning around in the passage may step into an unknown space. When we got together, Mao Xiaoli told us that she and Zhang Qiudao were besieged by evil spirits, and Zhang Qiudao led the evil spirits away. The spirit told her to run." After thinking for a while, he explained: "Xiuzhi said that he wants to save the Tao, and it is best to find you first."

"I know." When Chen Yang found Zhang Qiudao, he saw a piece of cloth on his body, and on the cloth was Zhuzhen Baobao written in cloud seal script.Zhuzhenbao is a Taoist treasure, which writes the origin and merits of the gods and gods, and is used to praise the Taoist gods when the celestial masters make offerings.In the past, Kou Xuanling had to recite and praise all the treasures every time he made an offering, which was equivalent to praising the patriarch with gorgeous rhetoric.

Zhuzhen Baogao is the most precious treasure in the sky, and it is also the way of quick cultivation.The Zhuzhen Baobao of each Taoist god is different, and it also has the ability to exorcise evil spirits.At that time, Lu Xiuzhi should have given Zhang Qiudao the cloth with some of his own treasures written on it, but there are many evil spirits in the passage of Infernal Hell, and it is impossible to defend against it.

As for why Chen Yang was asked to go to Zhang Qiudao, it was naturally because his relationship with Du Shuo allowed him to freely come and go to Hell without disturbing the underworld.If Lu Xiuzhi broke into the Infernal Hell with great fanfare, it would definitely attract the attention of the underworld.As a heavily guarded place, Infernal Hell cannot easily cause turmoil.If a generation of gods broke into the endless hell carelessly, those who didn't know would think they were going to rob the prison.

There will be turmoil up and down, and there will be evil spirits sneaking into the underworld, and then there will be big troubles.

Chen Yang shook his head: "It seems that even if we want to help, there is nowhere to help."

Kou Xuanling: "Let's go with fate."

He went to Ji Jiang with the wine order list and asked her to help with the purchase.Chen Yang went back to the room with a generous surface, but as soon as the door was closed, he tiptoed to steal the candy.The candy at home has always been placed generously on the cabinet, which can be seen at a glance.Anyway, Du Shuo was not worried about the candies being stolen by Chen Yang, because he knew the number of candies.

After counting the candies every two or three days, it was found that Chen Yang had stolen the wrong number.Chen Yang argued with a guilty conscience, he is not afraid of losing, and he will steal next time.

Chen Yang observed the room and bedroom calmly first, and he was sure that Du Shuo hadn't come back yet.He peeled off the last candy of the day, took out two other candy wrappers from his pocket and stacked them with the third candy wrapper and stored them in a small jar.These candy wrappers are very useful. For example, if he steals the candy in the sugar bowl, he has to go outside to buy other candies and wrap them in candy wrappers.

I don't know where Du Shuo bought the candy, the taste is unique, but no matter how I search, I can't find the original purchase address.Otherwise, he would have secretly bought two truckloads of candies by himself, would he still need the three candies that Du Shuo donated every day?

Chen Yang took out a large amount of candies, and by visual inspection there were seven or eight, and quickly stuffed them into his pocket and covered the sugar bowl.He secretly picked up the small jar with hidden sugar paper, put it on the table, and took out a pack of ordinary candies from under the table.After unpacking the candies, they rewrapped the candy wrappers, and wrapped seven or eight of them.The candy wrappers are naturally wrinkled and tightly wrapped. If you don't take them apart and compare them with the original candies, you will never notice the difference.

Chen Yang was complacent and complacent: "In order to make them indistinguishable from each other, I practiced hard day and night and worked tirelessly to acquire this skill."

"What technology?"

The sudden sound made Chen Yang almost throw all the candy out of his hand. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and quickly threw the candy wrapper back into the small jar, and quickly stuffed the other ordinary candies back under the table.There were only seven or eight candies left on the table, lonely, helpless and pitiful.

Du Shuo embraced Chen Yang's waist from behind, leaned his chin on Chen Yang's shoulder, narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the candies on the table, and said calmly, "Yangyang, what is this?"

Chen Yang replied calmly: "Want plums to quench thirst."

Du Shuo: "Have you eaten all the candy today?"

"No." Chen Yang thought of the seven or eight candies secretly hidden in his pocket, but he said without blinking when he felt guilty: "There are two left."

"Oh. Yangyang's self-control is very good today. It's almost dusk and there are still two candies left." Du Shuo remained calm, pinched Chen Yang's earlobe and neck, and then kissed slightly icy.

Chen Yang turned his head to see Du Shuo, who was naked from the upper body, with only a bath towel around his lower body, and his hair was so wet that it hadn't been dried or combed.He was quite surprised: "Old man, are you stimulated?" For Du Shuo, who values ​​image, even walking around the room wearing a bath towel and staring at the messy wet hair after he just came out of the shower, is nothing. Image, behavior without etiquette.

Du Shuo sat down, still hugging Chen Yang affectionately: "I heard some movement in the bathroom just now, I guess it was you coming back, so I hurriedly wrapped a towel around it and came out. Otherwise, I wouldn't have seen you here... Heh, 'Want plums to quench thirst'."

Chen Yang felt annoyed that he was too anxious just now and didn't check the bathroom.At this moment, he could only pretend to be calm, picked up the candies and said, "I'll put them back."

After speaking, he got up and went to the cupboard where the sugar bowl was placed. Just as he was about to throw the candy in, he heard Du Shuo's voice: "Don't put it in yet, bring the candy here."

With a shake of his hands, Chen Yang threw all the candies into the sugar bowl, stirring them up by the way.When he turned around and handed the sugar bowl to Du Shuo's palm, he said, "You didn't tell me earlier, I threw it in." Du Shuo smiled, opened the sugar bowl and picked out eight candies from it, which made Chen Yang Heartbroken.

Du Shuo: "Do you dare to open it?"

"Don't dare." Chen Yang directly refused.

Du Shuo smiled and said, "You open it, and I'll eat it for you." Chen Yang refused righteously, saying that he must protect his teeth.Hearing this, Du Shuo sneered back, picked up a candy with his long fingers, and when he peeled it off, it turned out to be an ordinary candy.He snorted coldly and picked up the second candy.

When Du Shuo peeled off the third candy, Chen Yang turned around and ran towards the door.Du Shuo quickly grabbed him, his long legs pinched his lower body, grabbed his wrists, and pressed him against the door: "What are you doing, you want to run?"

"I'll see if the grill is set up."

"It's still early. Tell me first, why are there other candies mixed in the sugar bowl?"

"I don't know. You bought it, how do I know?" Chen Yang showed a ignorant expression: "No wonder the taste of the candy I ate a few times was different from before, and it was a bit worse. Laodu, you shouldn't be deceived Right? You have no experience, regular customers are easy to be slaughtered. Don't worry, you give me the contact information of the other party, and I will argue."

Du Shuo bit Chen Yang's lips, and said helplessly, "Yangyang, every jar of candy and every candy wrapper has a number on it. I remember the number on the candy wrapper for your candies, so tell me, Why can I still see sugar wrappers with the same number in the sugar bowl for the candies I gave out? There are other ordinary candies wrapped in the sugar wrappers."

Chen Yang's eyes widened, never expecting Du Shuo to be so ruthless. "You are still numbering the candy paper?! You are so scheming!" He was very angry, very unhappy: "I am very angry, you obviously don't trust me. You don't trust me in such trivial matters, let me Han Xin hiss—why bite me?"

Du Shuo couldn't even get angry, and said angrily: "Aren't you taking advantage of my absence? How many times do you say it, and you have to restrain yourself. You want to lose all your teeth and go to repair them, and you won't even be able to eat anything cold ?"

"Then there's no need to put numbers on every candy paper."

Du Shuo pinched Chen Yang's earlobe: "I made the candies and wrappers myself, so I have no right to put numbers on them?"

Chen Yang opened his mouth wide in surprise, and took his big hand together: "You made the candy yourself?" No wonder there was no manufacturer's trademark and contact information on the candy wrapper, and they couldn't buy it anywhere, and they couldn't get an answer when they asked Kou Xuanling.

Thinking of this, the puffy Chen Xiaoyang brand balloon seemed to have floated on a branch of a tree, was pierced by a sharp branch, and ran away with a 'chi' sound and deflated, soft and light, obediently pinching Du Shuo's palm around Shaking: "Why do you still have to do it yourself? Is it troublesome?" As he spoke, he stood on tiptoe and chirped again and again.

Chen Xiaoyang has this ability to make him angry and instantly soften his whole heart, Du Shuo thought so, but he didn't refuse Chen Yang's approach.Pick him up and put him on the sofa, then throw the hair dryer to him: "Dry my hair for me."

Chen Yang picked up the hair dryer, laid his whole body on Du Shuo's back, stretched five fingers with one hand and raked his wet hair, and turned on the hair dryer to help him dry it.Halfway through the blowing, the water droplets slid from Du Shuo's neck to his chest, all the way to his abdominal muscles, and finally disappeared in the towel.

Being tempted, Chen Yang turned off the hair dryer and put it on the table, turned over and slipped into Du Shuo's arms like a fish, leaned over and gnawed on Du Shuo's collarbone and said vaguely, "I'm hungry if I don't blow my hair."

Du Shuo's eyes dimmed, and the hand caressing Chen Yang's neck slid to his back, poking in from the corner of his clothes. "I'll feed you..."

Laughter came faintly from the lawn in the courtyard of the sub-bureau, and the unique smell of barbecue passed through many barriers and got into the nose of Chen Yang who was hiding under the blanket.Chen Yang shrugged his nose and woke up suddenly. The curtains in the bedroom were drawn to create a dark environment suitable for sleeping.

When Du Shuo opened the door and saw that he was awake, he came over and kneaded Chen Yang's sore waist, and said, "Do you want to go down?"

Chen Yang was kneaded very comfortably, and he responded in a low voice: "Mmm." The two exchanged their necks for a moment, and then he got off the bed.After grooming, he went downstairs with Du Shuo, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he was stuffed with skewers. Faced with the request from Kaixuan's shining eyes, Chen Yang sat down and grilled for them in a good-tempered manner.

A female named Mao Zong next to Kaixuan stood beside Chen Yang to observe the art. Chen Yang showed a puzzled expression. Seeing this, Ji Jiang explained: "Her name is Ding, and she used to be a famous chef in Qin. You learn to cook."

Mao Zong, named Ding, paid respects to Chen Yang, and Chen Yang said, "You don't need to be a teacher. If you want to learn, you can just watch and ask questions if you don't understand. I don't know how to teach others. I can only answer your doubts as much as possible. "

Mao Zang once again gave a big thank you gift.Chen Yang was already immune. Anyway, if there were a few more hairs in the sub-bureau, he would be able to get used to it after being saluted a few more times.Only Chen Yang, Mao Zong named Ding, and Aunt Ma know how to barbecue among the barbecue team members, and the others are just wasting ingredients.So they eat ready-made food with peace of mind, and only pass some ingredients over from time to time.

When Chen Yang was grilling, he found two strangers, who should be the guests brought by Aunt Ma.But they looked familiar with Kou Xuanling, could they be acquaintances?Thinking of this, he asked Aunt Ma who was sitting next to him.

Aunt Ma replied: "They are indeed acquaintances. Those two are members of the General Administration and have worked with Xuan Ling for a while."

"Are they here to find Lao Kou?"

"No." Aunt Ma took a brush and dipped it in honey sauce: "They came to find Zhang Qiudao to inquire about the news. I heard that the 'roadblock' this time was created by Zhang Tianshi's family. They also wanted to participate in the Taoist exchange ceremony, so they came here in advance to inquire. , It's a pity that the kid Qiudao is stuck in the room playing games because of love."

"The key is that I don't even know about Qiu Dao. Isn't this something to avoid suspicion?"

"Don't come here. It's not a big assessment to avoid suspicion, it's just a place to participate in the Taoist exchange law meeting. If there is no place, they can make one for themselves, as long as they can pass the 'roadblock'. So every time the Taoist exchange law meeting is set up 'Roadblock', as long as there is a door, you can get through it safely."

"Does it mean to ask the Tao to know?"

Aunt Ma shook her head: "He doesn't know. Zhang Tianshi's family is different from other places. They say they are fair and treat everyone equally. In fact, everyone knows that they just think it is fun. It must be very difficult to set up 'roadblocks'. As long as other celestial masters complain, they will be very happy." Happy, the more you scold them, the happier you will be. The nature is bad, but the appearance is good."

Chen Yang took Aunt Ma's brush and brushed it on his roasted wings: "I don't quite understand."

Aunt Ma's personality is more irritable than Ma Shanfeng's, and she rolled her eyes when she heard the words: "Don't understand? Zhang Tianshi is the same lineage, passed on to his own family and not to outsiders. So no matter how difficult the 'roadblock' is, the Zhang family's children will not be stopped. Because They just go home, can other celestial masters in the celestial master world prevent them from going home? But the other celestial masters are unlucky, every time they are frightened by the game, they wish they could directly pick the celestial master's mansion."

"Is it so bad? Qiu Dao has a pretty good personality, except for being addicted to games."

Aunt Ma patted Chen Yang's shoulder affectionately: "Innocent."

Chen Yang: "..." Why on earth did Aunt Ma marry Ma Shanfeng?

Aunt Ma could see what Chen Yang was thinking at a glance, and said directly: "Because I didn't know it at the beginning, and the transportation was inconvenient in my time, and I was surprised to see a good-looking man in ten miles and eight villages. After seeing the world, Regret is useless, I can only continue to eat, and some water, even if I am old, dry and woody, I can still eat enough."

Chen Yang bowed down.Aunt Ma caught a glimpse of Kaixuan out of the corner of her eye, and quickly waved: "Grandma's little Kaixuan, hurry up and see what gift grandma brought you?" She hugged Kaixuan into her arms, and put the roasted wings in her hand on a plate I couldn't wait to take out a green lace dress from the cloth bag at my feet: "Is it pretty? Do you like it?"

Seeing Kui Xuan shout out 'beautiful' and 'like', Chen Yang felt numb, and asked Ji Jiang in a low voice: "Why hasn't Kui Xuan's aesthetics been brought back?"

Ji Jiang was also very desperate: "They penetrate everywhere." Never underestimate the terrifying energy and skill of seeing the needles of her grandparents, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't resist the ubiquity of Ma Shanfeng and his wife.She said: "Kaixuan has lived for more than 2000 years and has never gained weight. But today I weighed it and found that I gained two catties!"

What is the concept of losing two catties?Anyway, Ji Jiang was terrified, and she was even more terrified when she saw the big fat man swaggering over.

Ma Shanfeng put a plate of barbecue meat in front of Big Fatty, and opened a bottle of red wine for him that cats can drink.Fatty mixed with a group of ghosts and gods, holding a red wine bottle and eating barbecue, living a life of drunken dreams.But wake up, there are already six layers of fat on the belly!

Chen Yang stretched out his hands to pinch the fat on Dapang's stomach, and said in silence for a while: "Big Fatty, continue to maintain your figure."

Fatty raised his claws to shake off Chen Yang, caught a glimpse of Du Shuo and Kui Xuan's gloomy gazes, and replaced them with a meat pad.He deeply remembered this humiliation in his heart, and this humiliation disappeared after eating Chen Yang's grilled pork belly.

The two members of the General Bureau that Aunt Ma brought over had eaten their fill before remembering their original intentions. They glanced at the crowd and couldn't find Zhang Qiudao, so they casually asked, "I heard that Zhang Tianshi's family has a descendant in the branch office, why haven't I seen him?"

Kou Xuanling: "Healing."

The man was taken aback: "Injured?"

"It is." He was seriously injured both physically and psychologically.

"Then can he still join the Taoist Exchange Association?"

"I won't participate." Kou Xuanling bit down the roasted golden-yellow pork belly, and paired it with a well-chilled bayberry wine, the greasy feeling was immediately washed away.

"Aren't you going to Tianshi Mansion?"

"Yeah, go on a trip."

The two members of the General Administration were speechless for a long time. Of course they knew the water in the words, but Kou Xuanling's attitude was extraordinarily shameless.And they tried it all afternoon today, and found that even with the friendship of former colleagues, there was no way for Kou Xuanling to reveal the 'roadblock' and write a message to them.

At this moment, two members of the General Administration received a message from the Taoist Association at the same time, and their hearts were cold when they saw the 'roadblock' posted above.Chen Yang and the others looked at each other, and Ma Shanfeng took out his mobile phone to check the information: "Death calculator?"

Kou Xuanling leaned over to look: "What is it?"

"A newly developed app designed based on numerology deduction. Just input the name and birth date to calculate the time of death and the way of death."

Chen Yang gasped: "So much fun?"

"Of course it's impossible." Ma Shanfeng said: "At that time, everyone will be issued a fake birthday horoscope, and all they have to do is survive the time of death."