The fairy is fierce

Zuo Lingquan closed the door, walked to the corridor on the side of the cruise ship, and looked at the night view of the Spring River.

The moon was setting, the stars were sparse, and there were only a few lights along both sides of the river. Apart from the dark earth, not much could be seen.

Because the wives were watching, Zuo Lingquan did not dare to go back and chat with the concubine by holding a candle. He blew the cold wind alone for a while. He wanted to chat with Jiang Yi, who was helping the concubine to review the files, but he heard something coming from the painting boat. A few conversations:

"Who is playing cotton?"

"Is there any?... It seems to be true, over there at Ling Quan..."

…

Zuo Lingquan was stunned, and after listening for a moment, he discovered that the tune of "Dang Dang~" was faintly echoing on the cruise ship.

He thought it was the musicians on the boat playing music just now, but then he realized that the music was played carelessly.

Zuo Lingquan followed the music and walked along the corridor for a while, and came to Xie Qiutao's window. He looked up and saw the petite girl lying on the tea couch with her pipa in her arms, her feet dangling in the air and her hands shaking. The posture of plucking the pipa strings and playing music cannot be described as weird, it is completely weird.

Realizing that someone was passing by the window, Xie Qiutao quickly stood up and assumed an elegant posture with the pipa half-hiding her face. After discovering that it was Zuo Lingquan, she breathed a sigh of relief and pretended to be serious and started playing the pipa.

"Dang Dang Dang~"

Zuo Lingquan looked a little funny, because they had to pretend to be unfamiliar with each other to avoid the Hou family becoming suspicious. He didn't take the initiative to say hello, but just stood on the veranda and pretended to look at the scenery.

Xie Qiutao drank a bottle of Immortal Drunk and was still dizzy. Besides being tied up by Shangguan Lingye, she felt a little depressed, so she just played the pipa here by herself.

Although he was a little angry at Shangguan Lingye's domineering attitude and dared not speak out, Xie Qiutao's influence on Zuo Lingquan was quite good. If Shangguan Lingye had finished using her and wanted to abandon her, it is estimated that only Zuo Lingquan could protect her. Therefore, The playing is quite sad, and it has the meaning of "telling feelings through music" and showing pity.

It's a pity that Zuo Lingquan is a martial artist who is not good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He can only listen to the sound and fails to understand Miss Xie's good intentions.

However, there were still people on the cruise ship who knew the music. Zuo Lingquan had just stood for a moment when he heard footsteps on the cruise ship deck, followed by a clear voice:

"The green forest is on the mountain, the dusk rain follows the clouds, and the beautiful lady welcomes you to the east. I talk about my hometown in the vicissitudes of life, but I see the old tree still the same. The peach blossoms have fallen, and the solitary branches face the sea. Where are you? I have been waiting for a hundred years and have not returned, leaving you alone. Ruining the temple and burying the bones..."

Waiting for the crown's voice.

Xie Qiutao played the pipa for a moment, his eyes slightly surprised.

Zuo Lingquan was also quite surprised. He turned around and saw Hou Guan walking out of the corner of the cruise ship, waving his folding fan lightly and saying:

"Miss Xie played the "Qingming Tune" very seriously... Hey, fellow Taoist Zuo, are you there too?"

Hou Guan was originally planning to get close to Xie Qiutao, who had great opportunities, but in a blink of an eye he saw a casual cultivator named Zuo Lengchan standing by the fence admiring the scenery. He stopped talking, put away his scholarly manner, and raised his hand to say hello.

Zuo Lingquan guessed Hou Guan's intention. He stood relatively far away, and there was no need to avoid it. He took advantage of the situation and raised his hand:

"I have nothing to do tonight. Let's go out and relax. Mr. Hou is very talented in writing. This poem is quite popular, but it is too sad."

In front of the guests, Hou Guan showed no dissatisfaction at being disturbed. He nodded to Xie Qiutao who was watching the theater in the room, then walked to Zuo Lingquan and said:

"I am a practitioner like fellow Taoist Zuo, so I don't know how to recite poems and compose poems. This poem was written by my ancestor, and it is consistent with the artistic conception of Miss Xie's music. I was inspired by it, so I read it out and asked fellow Taoist Zuo It’s funny.”

Zuo Lingquan heard that it was written by the 'Four Elephant Gods' and was surprised:

"I have long admired the name of the 'Four Elephant Gods'. I used to only know him as an expert from the Immortal family, but I didn't expect him to be an expert with both civil and military skills. I am ignorant and ignorant."

"It's not that I'm ignorant. My ancestor can recite poems and compose poems, but he never writes them. People outside really don't know. This poem was written by my ancestor when he was traveling. I don't know how many years ago."

Xie Qiutao can play music and understands some poetry. At this time, he was leaning against the window and said curiously:

"This poem seems to be "Magpie Bridge Immortal". Could it be that Patriarch Hou wrote it in memory of an old friend?"

Hou Guan originally wanted to tell Xie Qiutao a story to arouse his interest, but unfortunately Zuo Lingquan's presence in front of him was a bit distracting, and he couldn't attract people, so he could only continue:

"That's right. I heard from my elders that when my ancestor was traveling around, he met a woman on the beach in the north of Yunzhou. She was deceived by a heartless man and waited for more than forty years. She has been waiting all her life. Especially Pitiful."

The daughter's family is all soft-hearted, and they will feel heartbroken when hearing stories about such a scumbag man and a heroic woman. The same goes for Xie Qiutao, who frowned and said:

"What's the result? Did your ancestor rescue the girl?"

Hou Guan shook his head and sighed: "How can outsiders help with this kind of thing? When the ancestor passed by again, that place became the 'Fairy Tomb'. There is still a big peach tree growing there. If Miss Xie has If you have time, I can take you there to see it. A thousand miles away is not too far.

"ah?"

Xie Qiutao felt that this story was not pleasant at all. She pursed her lips and said:

"What's the point of visiting the grave? If there's a chance, I should catch that ungrateful man, kill him and bury him nearby."

Zuo Lingquan also felt that this should be the case, and he asked:

"What happened to the heartless man?"

"Alas~ This is the pitiful part of a girl. She was deceived to death by a heartless man, and she didn't want to reveal his identity, lest the man suffer. If I knew who he was, I would definitely work with Miss Xie to catch him and kowtow in front of his grave to atone for my sins..."

Hou Guan was sad for a while, and seeing that Zuo Lingquan didn't understand at all and had no intention of leaving, he had to give up the idea of ​​getting close to him, and said goodbye after a few words.

Xie Qiutao was really attracted by the story just now. After Hou Guan left, she thought for a while and said:

"Friend Zuo, can you find the heartless man?"

The meaning of this question is to ask Zuo Lingquan if he can find out who he is with such a strong network of connections.

Zuo Lingquan also felt that this story was quite distressing. He shook his head and said, "Pay attention in the future. It sounds like it happened a hundred years ago. It's hard to say what the truth is. Miss Xie, go to bed early. I'm going back to my room."

"Oh."

Seeing this, Xie Qiutao didn't say much. She held the pipa and continued to play the cotton...——

Ding ding ding~

Listening to the out-of-tune pipa, Zuo Lingquan walked back to his room along the corridor. Thinking about the story just now, he didn't pay much attention and opened the door directly.

The lights were still on in the room, but Shangguan Lingye was not in the living room.

As Zuo Lingquan closed the door, he looked around and saw that the lights in the bedroom were dim, and the red gauze curtains were hanging down, making the big round bed, which was already full of charming atmosphere, more ambiguous due to the dry weather.

The red palace shoes fell on the floor a little casually, and there was a dress hanging beside the bed. The former gorgeous and noble concubine, with her elbows supporting her upper body and her hands supporting her cheeks, lay in the middle of the big round bed.

The clothes on her body were changed into a red nightgown. The fabric was thin and silky, but not transparent. It exuded a little glossy color under the dim light.

The fabric of the red nightgown was extremely soft. As she lay down, the fabric naturally stuck to her waist and back without any wrinkles. She could even faintly see the outline of the laces on Hua Jianli's back; her shoulders were cut like a knife, and the waist line was smooth and narrowed to the narrowest point, and then suddenly became plump, turning into a big peach with perfect arc.

Because the fabric was too soft, even if there was no deliberate movement, just draped over her body, there was still a faint concave line between the round big peach.

The most terrifying thing was that the concubine was lying with her back to the door, lying more casually, with her calves bent, swaying back and forth in the air, wearing black gauze stockings, and her feet wrapped in black silk, and occasionally slightly arched and stretched out.

The nightgown slid to the bend of her legs, and it seemed that something could be seen from the gap, but it seemed that nothing could be seen.

(⊙﹏⊙)! !

Zuo Lingquan was caught off guard by such a provocative posture, and before his wives noticed, he quickly closed his right eye.

Perhaps he realized that closing only his right eye was not right, so he wanted to close his left eye as well, but before he could, the graceful beauty in the bedroom turned her head back.

Shangguan Lingye turned sideways, lying on his side with his left arm supporting his upper body. The bulging collar was very tight, which made the waist and hip curves more graceful. She frowned slightly and asked:

"What are you reading?"

"Uh..."

Zuo Lingquan only saw at this time that there was an open book in front of Shangguan Lingye, and he should have been lying down to read.

Tuanzi also squatted on the book, strangely covering his eyes with his wings. When he found someone entering the room, he turned around:

"Ji?"

Zuo Lingquan quickly turned his eyes away and spread his hands awkwardly:

"Madam, what are you doing..."

Shangguan Lingye lowered his head and sketched his figure. Nothing was exposed, even his feet were tightly wrapped.

"What's wrong with me? You go out to hang out, and I read in the room. I have to stand and sit properly? Pretending to be your Taoist partner, you really treat me as your Taoist partner?"? ?

Zuo Lingquan felt that the concubine was seducing him, but he had no evidence, so he could only say:

"Your Highness, just read a book, why did you take off your disguise? Even your skirt..."

Shangguan Lingye raised her hand and hooked it lightly, and her dress and makeup returned to the appearance of a female cultivator:

"I am a Taoist master, lying in the room, and I can do whatever I feel comfortable. Is there a problem?"

"Your Highness, you know I'm coming in, why didn't you put on your clothes in advance..."

"You are engrossed in reading, you know I'm in the room, why didn't you knock on the door?"

"..."

Zuo Lingquan had nothing to say, and nodded, "It's my fault, Your Highness, continue reading, I won't disturb you. Then he came to sit down by the tea table.

"Hmph~" Shangguan Lingye moved her jade fingers slightly, changed into a very homely outfit, and continued to lie down and read.

Zuo Lingquan couldn't see the bedroom from where he sat, and felt a little relieved, but Fang The glimpse he had just gotten was still lingering in his mind, and he even forgot the little story he had heard.

He was just trying to sit quietly and meditate to kill the boring time, when Tuanzi suddenly flew out of the bedroom with his wings flapping, and landed directly on his knees.

"Chijijiji..."

Tuanzi was a little excited, gesturing with his little wings and calling out, probably saying:

"Go and take care of the nanny, she's gone crazy, she's looking at a picture album of little people fighting, and just now she imitated the people in the picture, putting herself in a very strange posture, and hanging on a rope, she's even crazier than when my mother was alone in the room..."

Unfortunately, Zuo Lingquan didn't understand what Tuanzi was saying at all, thinking that Tuanzi didn't like being a study companion, so he just doted on her and rubbed her...——

No words were spoken all night.

The next morning, the cruise ship went down the tributary of the Yanjiang River and arrived at Linhai County.

For the Hou family to be famous in the spiritual world, they must be a prominent family in a county. In order not to disturb the people, the area of ​​more than a hundred miles to the west of Linhai County was assigned to the Hou family as a private jurisdiction.

Zuo Lingquan stood on the bow of the boat and looked towards the river bank. He could see towering ancient trees and green fields on the river bank. There were many birds and beasts living among them, and there were monks running back and forth to take care of them. At first glance, it looked like a wild zoo.

The Hou family's manor is located on the seaside, with excellent terrain close to mountains and rivers. From a meteorological point of view, it is also a small blessed place suitable for spiritual practice. However, looking from a distance, the entire hill is bare, with countless white stone tablets stuck in it. There is a manor on the top of the mountain, which is incompatible with the surrounding mountains and fields surrounded by green forests.

Shangguan Lingye stood beside Zuo Lingquan and frowned slightly when he saw this scene. Her field of vision was much better than Zuo Lingquan's, and she could see clearly that there were all graves under the white stone tablets.

It looks weird to build the villa on top of a tomb hill, but the sky is clear and blue, the sky is clear, and it doesn't make people feel gloomy. Overall, it's a bit weird.

Xie Qiutao stood not far away from the two of them. After a few glances, he felt a little worried about his own safety and wanted to say a few words, but Hou Guan was nearby, so he finally gave up.

The boat docked at the river bend under the tomb mountain. A winding stone road led to Sixiang Villa. There were already family members waiting by the river to greet them.

Zuo Lingquan walked among the crowds and looked at the tens of thousands of tombs on the hillside. Some were large and some were small, but without exception they were all monuments without words. Judging from the arrangement, they were not arranged in any formation, but simply arranged from the oldest to the newest. Arranged.

The group of people were all monks and they went up the mountain very quickly. In less than half a cup of tea, they reached the Sixiang Villa on the top of the mountain.

The villa was built in a rather simple and restrained manner, just like other people in the world. The only unusual thing was that there was a temple built on the side of the villa. What was enshrined in it was not a statue of a god, but a lifelike white tiger. There was also an incense altar tribute table below.

The Four Elephants are divided into Green Dragon, White Tiger and Suzaku Xuanwu. It stands to reason that the Four Elephants Villa should enshrine the gods and earth animals, so it should be dedicated to all four of them. The white tiger alone is a bit special.

Zuo Lingquan asked casually about this, and Hou Guan's answer was "White Tiger is in the west, and Sixiang Villa is in the west of Yuyaozhou", which makes sense.

Sixiang Villa is somewhat large, but most of the clan members are running businesses in other places, and there are not many people staying at home, so the entire villa looks a bit empty.

After Hou Guan returned to the villa, he arranged accommodation for the guests who came over.

Shangguan Lingye's purpose was to see what medicines were sold in the gourds of the Hou family. He originally planned to stay put and wait until the 'Four Elephants Divine Hou' saw Xie Qiutao, then secretly investigate and decide whether to take action.

But what Shangguan Lingye didn't expect was that before she followed the servant to the arranged guest house, Hou Guan chased her from behind and said:

"Fellow Daoist Zuo, please stay. Ancestor, please come over and talk."

Zuo Lingquan and Shangguan Lingye paused and looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.

Zuo Lingquan turned around calmly and said:

"Oh? Could it be that the Four Elephant God Marquis still recognizes this little person like me?"

Hou Guan was actually quite surprised. Before he could alert his ancestor about bringing his guests back, his message had already been sent to him. He smiled and said:

"I don't know. My ancestor has great magical powers. He may have heard of you two. Let me take you there."

Shangguan Lingye narrowed his eyes slightly and felt that he had come to the right place for this trip.

She was already in someone else's house, and it was too late to run away if something happened. She secretly greeted Tang Jingxun and asked Jingxun to inform her mother-in-law before turning around and heading to the back mountain with Zuo Lingquan.

Xie Qiutao followed to another place to stay. When she looked back, she saw the two of them following Hou Guan. There was a bit of suspicion on her face, but she couldn't say anything, she just became more careful——

The back mountain is at the back of Sixiang Villa, and beyond is the boundless East China Sea. After climbing over the top of the mountain, there is a hunting sea breeze blowing up, rolling up the dry grass and dead leaves on the ground.

Zuo Lingquan followed Hou Guan as he walked, being careful along the way. When he came to the back hill adjacent to the coast, what he saw was a garden. It was quite large, but over the years, the buildings had become dilapidated.

The garden is not inhabited by people, but by various birds and animals, all of which are old. The toothless tigers and leopards, the hairless cranes and eagles, some are skinny, and some are missing arms and legs. They no longer make a sound when they see strangers, but Lying in his lair a little dull, it seemed that he had lost his fighting spirit.

Outside the old garden, there is also an endless cemetery.

A young man wearing a scholar's robe, holding a shovel in his hand, was digging a hole at the end of the cemetery, spreading shovelfuls of soil around him.

There was an old dog with a big frame but not much meat next to him. He watched the scholar dig for mines. After digging for a while, the old dog slowly crawled in and lay down. Feeling that the size was not suitable, he got up again and dug two pieces with his paws. Down.

Then the scholar continued digging and said:

"I used to dig so many holes for others, but I didn't know how to dig one for myself. Now I can't dig it, so let me dig it. No matter how beautiful I dig it, you will think it's inappropriate, because no one will think it's appropriate to bury themselves in a hole. So don’t be too particular about it.”

The old dog lay in front of him, just staring at the pit without any reaction.

In front of him is the lonely grave thousands of miles away, and behind him is the old beast in the residual garden.

When Zuo Lingquan came over, he imagined all the possibilities of the 'Four Elephant Divine Marquis', but he never expected to see a young scholar, looking like a lunatic, digging a grave for a dog on a barren mountain.

Shangguan Lingye also frowned and slowed down a bit.

After Hou Guan brought the two of them to the old garden, he did not go any further and said with a smile:

"The ancestor is in front. He looks very young, but he must be older than the three of us combined. The ancestor is friendly, so you two can just go over there."

After nodding, Zuo Lingquan walked towards the scholar, and stopped when he was more than thirty feet away.

rub rub rub

In the graveyard, the scholar did not greet the two people behind him, and kept digging the pit with a shovel. Gradually, only a head could be seen, and the whole person was standing in the pit.

The old dog climbed in and tried several times, but did not come up the last time; he did not come up because he was satisfied with the pit he dug, but because he lay down and closed his eyes, and never opened them again.

The scholar jumped out of the grave pit, filled the excavated soil again, built a grave mound, and then took out a blank stele from the Linglong Pavilion and inserted it in front of the grave mound.

Shangguan Lingye and Zuo Lingquan watched all this in the fluttering sea breeze. They understood what the scholar was doing, but did not understand why the scholar called them here.

After the scholar had erected the stone tablet, he clapped his hands and turned to look at Zuo Lingquan:

"Zuo Jianxia, ​​I've kept you waiting for a long time."

Zuo Lingquan didn't know the other party's intention, so he spoke first:

"Do you know me?"

The scholar was honest: "As the first of the younger generation of the Nine Sects, I naturally know him."

"..."

Shangguan Lingye saw that the other party knew everything about him, and confirmed that he was coming for Zuo Lingquan, so she frowned and asked:

"Are you from the Youying alien race?"

The scholar stuck the shovel into the ground, turned around and walked towards the sea:

"Don't panic, there are no ambushes around, I'm the only one. Anyone who comes is a guest, no matter friend or foe, you have to give them a cup of tea."

Zuo Lingquan looked at Shangguan Lingye, who hesitated for a moment, but followed him, and he naturally walked in front of him.

The hillside by the sea was full of graves, and tens of thousands of stone tablets looked like a white stone forest in the sun, with no end in sight.

The scholar walked in front, seemingly at an unhurried pace, but in a moment he had walked several miles, and finally arrived at a natural reef on the seashore.

The reef looked like a large platform, with a thatched cottage on it and a tea table outside.

The scholar picked up the teapot, poured two bowls of tea, then walked to the edge of the reef and sat down, looking at the endless East China Sea, and said:

"Does Zuo Jianxia know what is buried in the graveyard behind?"

The two came to the reef and sat down near the tea table, without touching the tea.

Zuo Lingquan glanced at the graveyard: "All the dead birds and animals are buried here?"

The scholar nodded gently: "Do you think I am different?"

Shangguan Lingye couldn't see through the scholar's thoughts, but felt that this was not different. She said:

"Spiritual animals are like close friends. Burying them with great care is a duty. How can it be different?"

"Not all birds and animals are spiritual animals. The ones you see outside are valuable spiritual animals. In fact, when cultivating spiritual animals, there will be many old, weak, sick, or completely unspiritual ordinary birds and animals. No one wants these birds and animals. Under normal circumstances, they are either thrown out to fend for themselves or used to feed other animals. Only I will save them and raise them from birth to death."

This sentence sounds fine at first, very kind, but Zuo Lingquan pondered it and felt a little puzzled:

"If you save them, don't you still have to feed chickens, ducks, cows and sheep? The lives of chickens, ducks, cows and sheep are not lives?"

Shangguan Lingye wanted to speak, but stopped when he heard this and looked at the scholar.

The scholar smiled and said, "Yes. I thought I was doing a great deed, but I gradually discovered that life is indeed noble and humble. Unless everyone starves to death, it will always be a situation where the strong prey on the weak. The so-called supreme benevolence and kindness is just the strong protecting their own race. For the alien race, it is like a butcher's knife pressing on their heads. There is no such thing as right or wrong in the world. It's just a different standpoint."

This is a classic statement of the evil way. Shangguan Lingye said in a deep voice:

"The righteous path will be the law of the jungle, but the righteous path has a bottom line. It will teach everyone not to hunt young animals, not to catch winter fish, not to kill chickens for eggs, not to demand excessively, and to maintain the survival of all things while maintaining their own survival..."

The scholar did not want to talk about these great principles, and shook his head and said:

"What I want to say is that this world is ruled by people, and good and evil are determined by people. I am also a human being, and I think this is fine, but after encountering some things, I felt the same and found that people are indeed too domineering."

"What is it?"

The scholar did not tell the past, but just said:

"Do you know why the 'Youying Alien Clan' is called 'Alien Clan' by the righteous cultivators?"

Zuo Lingquan really didn't know this, he looked at Shangguan Lingye.

But Shangguan Lingye had never left Yuyaozhou, and only knew that the Youying Alien Clan were people who would do anything to practice, and he didn't know much else. She asked:

"Do you know?"

The scholar looked towards the East China Sea and explained:

"There are no gods in this world, only people with different standpoints. The Eight Lords are just people with great Taoism, and they are very different from the gods who live as long as the heaven and earth. Birds and beasts are no longer birds and beasts when they have achieved the right results; and people who have become gods are no longer people.

"What people can do to birds and beasts, those so-called "gods" can do to people. They may sympathize with the suffering of the people, and they may also maintain the survival of the human race, but they will not regard you as their own kind, just like you will not regard birds, beasts or even ordinary people as your own kind."

"..."

It was the first time that Zuo Lingquan heard this statement:

"Can this be the same?"

"The same. Tigers can no longer eat people when they have become intelligent; sheep can no longer think about their fellows when they have become intelligent; it's not that they don't want to, and forget that they are "born as beasts", but that the world is dominated by people, and human rules do not allow it.

"It's the same thing if you change it to 'gods'. They have their own rules. If a person reaches that level of cultivation and doesn't abide by their rules, he is an 'alien monster'; even if the 'gods' are very tolerant to people and bury birds and beasts properly like me. , it’s just the mercy of the superior, rather than treating people as the same kind, I don’t know if you can understand.”

Shangguan Lingye thought about it for a while and felt that it made sense.

Zuo Lingquan asked: "How do you know that gods are like this?"

"I just found out not long ago. There are no true immortals in this world because a long time ago, a sage and sage cut off the path to immortality and sealed the taiyin god. As a result, the yin and yang were imbalanced and all monks were unable to enter the world for the rest of their lives. The 'Nine Gai Realm' blocks everyone's path to immortality."

The scholar turned his head and looked overseas:

"The purpose of the Youying alien race is very simple, just to open up the path to immortality. Not all of them are demons. Some of them just want to go to the top of the mountain to see higher. But which of them are already equivalent to aliens to you? , just like sheep looking at sheep who want to become human beings.”

"..."

Zuo Lingquan sat up a little straighter and frowned, feeling that the news was really not good.

Shangguan Lingye didn't know whether this was true or not, but even if it was true, she could do the same if the Shangguan ancestor could not seek immortality and instead become the 'God' of ordinary people. She said coldly:

"You want to persuade me to wait until I return to the Youying alien race?"

The scholar did not mean this, but someone asked him to convey the news. He turned around:

"Whether you will join the Youying alien race or not has nothing to do with me; after all, I am now a level lower than your human race. What I am asking for now is just to seek justice for the 'monster' you call me."

Shangguan Lingye frowned: "What do you mean?"

"hehe……"

The scholar stood up and opened his arms.

The next moment!

boom

The earth trembled and the sea burst.

A sudden crosswind rose above the black reef, and the evil spirit soared into the sky like wild waves, sweeping across the entire mountain and wilderness...