Chapter 43 Chapter 12 Spring Arrives in Xiangguo, Who Falls into Yao Soul in the Moon

Since I went to the market in Raozhou City that time, it was not long after I saw the first spring snow, and it was soon the end of the year. This time I went home to celebrate the New Year, and the family was reunited. Compared with the last time in Luofu Mountain, it was naturally very different.The end of the new year is approaching, and Xingyan took Qiongxi Xueyi and his father to Raozhou City early to buy new year's goods.In these New Year's goods, in addition to all kinds of rice cakes and snacks that Qiongxi loves to eat, the mahogany charms and Tusu wine used to exorcise evil spirits during the New Year are naturally also bought.When buying a mahogany talisman for exorcising ghosts, Xingyan accidentally saw the faintly glowing ghost ring between his fingers, and suddenly realized that it was only half a month before and after he returned home, but it seemed to be the same as those who beat and killed gods and gods. The days of ghosts are far away.

Putting aside distracting thoughts, I waited for the New Year at home with peace of mind. On the day before the New Year's Eve at the end of the year, the Taoist temple on the mountain sent another Taoist boy to deliver a pair of ghost-exorcism peach charms made by the horseshoe dean of the Shangqing Palace to the home of the master of the Four Seas.In fact, there is no need for Daotong to explain, Xingyan saw the crooked familiar handwriting on the peach wood board, and knew it must be the handwriting of a veteran. At the end of the year, the whole family is busy.Xueyi and Qiongxun help Xingyanniang clean the house together, and Xingyan goes to the village at the foot of the mountain to help the neighbors draw mahogany talismans.Xing Yan's father was busy taking out the portraits of ancestors and ancestors that were treasured at home, hanging them in the main hall one by one, and arranged the incense burners, and lit the high-quality sandalwood incense that was usually reluctant to use.

When night fell, the family still had Qiong Xueyi, so they gathered around the table to eat New Year's Eve dinner and drink Tusu wine.At this time, the wine table in the mountain house was steaming hot, and a stove was lit next to them; although it was not cold in Horseshoe Mountain, it was a habit over the years.Of course, the stove is not just a decoration, now Xue Yiqiongxue and the Tusu wine that Xing Yanniang wants to drink are heating up on the stove.Because it is said that women are not allowed to drink cold wine. After the New Year's Eve dinner, Xing Yan's family began to worship their ancestors.Speaking of the ceremony of worshiping ancestors on New Year’s Eve, unlike other families in the village, Xing Yan’s family not only worships all the portraits of ancestors who have left images, but also worships the statue of Confucius.This rule was set by Xingyan's father when he was studying in Ji's private school; and now, there is another portrait of Lao Tzu, the leader of the Sanqing Church, next to the sage of Confucius. In the Qing palace, he became the head of the Taoist hall.

When waking up to bow down to his ancestors, Xue Yiqiongxue followed behind and bowed down.It stands to reason that these two fairies and goddesses are not from the Zhang family, but when the Zhang couple saw them kneeling together, they were naturally happy and did not stop them.For the two of them, although their son didn't say it clearly, but after counting the past events over the years, it can be seen that their precious son's life-long events don't seem to need their parents to worry about. After worshiping the ancestors, the next step is to set off firecrackers to drive away the disturbing Nian beast.Qiongxun had been looking forward to this kind of activity a few days ago; now when the firecrackers penetrated into the sky and the bamboo whips exploded everywhere, Qiongxun jumped and laughed excitedly, and together they helped the firecrackers drive away the non-existent monster.

After setting off the firecrackers, the little sister, who was still full of emotions, watched the New Year with everyone, preparing to see the arrival of the first day of the New Year with her own eyes.It's just that she had a night of trouble and drank some wine, and couldn't help feeling sleepy, so she was taken back to the room by sister Xueyi in a daze, and she took off her clothes and went to sleep.When she fell asleep, Xue Yi came back again and chatted with Zhang's family around the red clay stove. Looking at the fairy-like, pure and refined woman in front of her, Xing Yanniang mentioned the fairy who came back home to give mooncake gift boxes——Lingyi came back to her own home to give gifts, Xingyan said that she had heard from her parents before; Hearing his mother mention it again, Xingyan suddenly saw the appearance of the girl in the lake, Yichen Yixi, as Jiaona.Since he had nothing to do, he went to fetch a copper basin of clear water, and floated the white jade lotus in the water, hoping to see Lingyi—but even though this method had tried hundreds of times in the past, it unexpectedly failed this time ;Although the jade lotus in the clear water blooms layer by layer, as expected, but in the rippling lotus heart, there is only a dim wave shadow, and no image of the dragon girl can be seen.

"Perhaps she will also go to her parents' palace, and celebrate the new year with them." Looking at his slightly disappointed face reflected in the basin, Xingyan thought so. In the evening conversation around the fire in the winter night in the mountain village, the windows gradually turned white without knowing it; Zhang Xingyan's second New Year as the head of the Shangqing Palace came quietly like this. According to the rules of the country, in the early morning of the first day of the new year, the males in the family should go to the fields to worship the land as early as possible.Originally, Qiongxi was also scheduled to go with her, but when Xingyan and her father set off, she was still sound asleep on the bed, so Xueyi had to carry a basket of sacrifices, and the three of them went out of Raozhou City together. Go to the family's fields.After going down the mountain, Xingyan found that the weather was extremely cold. The previously melted snow was frozen in the mud, and the road under his feet became extremely hard; when he stepped on it, there was a "creaking" sound.

When they arrived at their own land, Lao Zhangtou laid out sacrifices on the ridge of the field, laid out futons, and then knelt down with Xingyan to pray for a good harvest in the new year.After worshiping, he poured the wine in the cup on the ground, Xing Yan followed the country rules with his father and went to the field to hoe for a while.Of course, it was freezing cold at this time, so this was just a sign of hard work, not a real need to hoe the fields.While the father and son were hoeing, Xueyi put away the pork, wine, and some tofu and fruits used for worship; when he woke up that they had finished hoeing, he returned with them in a basket.

This time I wake up and come back, mainly to celebrate the New Year with my parents.After the New Year's Eve, and ten days later, he felt that it was time to go back to the mountain to fulfill his fate, so he resigned from his parents and continued to head south towards Luofu Mountain with Qiongxue and Xueyi.Leaving home, I naturally bid farewell to my family; Ignoring many of the gossip, I woke up and said that the few of them were going south all the way, and they would set foot in Luofu again at the end of February. At this time, grass grows and warblers fly along the way, peanut trees are mixed, and there is a beautiful spring everywhere.

After re-entering Luofu, the three of them walked towards the depths of the cave along the familiar mountain road.Along the way, I also met some disciples who came down the mountain sporadically.The three people in Sihaitang have long been known to everyone after the last Jiayuanhui's effort to capture the devil; now that they have seen Xingyan, those junior disciples salute sincerely no matter how old they are, calling them "Hall Master" Uncle Master", step aside and let Xingyan go first.And some of them are well-informed. They have learned from the news from the Horseshoe Bieyuan that Section Master Zhang has completed the task of the teacher's sect and recovered the water essence, and they are full of congratulations.

However, amidst this respect, Xing Yan noticed a little weirdness.It turned out that when those disciples saluted him, they couldn't help but glance at the little girl next to him, the look in their eyes was strange and difficult to understand.At first, Xingyan thought it was just because the little girl was exquisite and cute that the male disciples looked at her more; but after seeing more, especially seeing that they looked at Qiongxu more than Xueyi, Xingyan felt something was wrong : "It's weird, didn't this little girl wash her face in the morning?...No." Xingyan looked at Qiongxu's face, but saw that she was pink and tender, like a vermilion powder, and she was no different from usual.But these are all small details, so I didn't have time to take care of it when I woke up, so I climbed all the way, half walking and half floating, and it didn't take long to arrive at the Shangqing Palace on Feiyunding, which was shrouded in clouds and mist.

When he arrived at the Shangqing Palace, after a brief briefing, he was invited by the gatekeeper disciples into the "Chengxin Hall" where Feiyunding discussed affairs.After entering the door, Xingyan saw the smiling head of Lingxu again.Not long after, Ling Tingzi from Zhu Mingfeng's Chongde Hall, Qixia Peak's Hongfa Hall's Qing Mingzi, and Yu Xiufeng's Purple Cloud Hall's Lingzhenzi also rushed over after receiving a message from Feiyunding.When seeing Hall Master of the Four Seas come back in a hurry, these prestigious Taoist priests congratulated him together. At this time, with the inside story told by the old Taoist Qinghe earlier, Xingyan looked at the head of Lingxu with a peaceful smile on his face, and his perception was very different; his heart was full of reverence. Later, after a solemn salute with the seniors in the sect, Xingyan told them all the things that happened along the way.It was only at this time, when I looked back and carefully reviewed the travels of this year, that Xingyan suddenly realized that I had encountered so many unimaginable things during my one-year experience in the mountains; Telling the story to the head, but I feel that most of my travels in this year are quite miraculous.And when he was talking, Xingyan also found that these well-informed seniors in front of him were also extremely absorbed in listening, nodding and smiling from time to time, and sometimes even urging questions, asking what happened next. Talking all the way like this, when talking about finding the water spirit recently, he mentioned the Taoist Lan Cheng who was killed by the tree demon.Originally, Xingyan was not sure if he was a disciple of the Shangqing, but when he just mentioned that Lan Cheng was killed, the Taoist priest of the Lingting Court, who had been fascinated by it, suddenly burst into grief and said that Lan Cheng was his subordinate. Disciple, who has always been diligent and restrained, was sent down the mountain to look for the water spirit almost a year ago - he was killed like this unexpectedly! Hearing that Lan Cheng had died, the elders beside him also grieved together.Seeing this, Xingyan hurriedly told them about Lan Cheng's later encounters, hoping to make them less sad. "Well." After listening to the narration, Lingxu said: "To get the treasure grass, change its auspicious name, and live in the ghost king's precept to practice, it may not be a fairy fate for him." Hearing what Lingxu said, Xingyan recruited Lan Caihe from the ring of the ghost king to meet several elders.Xingyan didn't expect that, after a few months of seeing each other, the dao ghost, who was originally dim and dim, has become full of energy, just like when he was alive; if Xingyan hadn't explained in advance, he was seen floating out of the small ring, even if his master Ling Tingzi almost didn't recognize that he and himself were human beings and ghosts. Later, when Lan Caihe took out the radiant sword-weed flower basket, Lingxuzi took a closer look and told Xingyan that the seven-leaf and three-flowered sword-weed that he gave to Lan Caihe, It is a rare fairy treasure, because its leaves are arranged according to the sun, moon, week and sky, and flowers are produced according to the three talents of heaven, earth and man; if this kind of fairy grass is cultivated carefully, in time, maybe this flower basket will be refined into a flower basket. With a magic weapon of the fairy family, Lan Caihe may also achieve the road of the fairy family. Speaking of which, most of the people present at the moment are indifferent to life and death; when the sadness of hearing the bad news for the first time passed, and hearing the words of the master, all of them turned pale and congratulated the ghost disciple. Immediately, Lingxu taught Lan Caihe a set of Taoism suitable for spiritual cultivation, and asked him to return to Zhang Xingyan's sect in Sihaitang from now on, and live in his magic weapon, the ghost king ring, to practice.Seeing the seniors looking after him like this, Lan Cheng from the previous life and now Lan Caihe naturally obediently and thanked him all the time—although he really couldn't remember anything about his life. Of course, at this time, Xingyan did not call out the Xiaojia ghost servant who claimed to be the evil spirit ghost king by the way, and introduced it to the teachers.After all, this Lord Ghost King is too hot-tempered; he had previously threatened that if the elders of the master's sect would not let him join the Four Seas Hall, he might as well kill them one by one and let his master be the head of the sect. A perverse and lawless vicious ghost, Xingyan thinks it's better to introduce him slowly in the future. Gossip aside, after that, all the heads of the Shangqing Palace went to watch the Taiji flowing water in the center of Feiyunding Square, and asked Xueyi to use a method to force out the water essence "Water Heart" left by Su Shuiruo. The sea-like water droplets flew out of Xueyi Ruxue's eyebrows, and when they penetrated into the flowing water Tai Chi where the yin and yang merged, Xingyan only felt that the clouds were flying around, as if suddenly there was a majestic water vapor flying from all directions. The top of the cloud is surging; at this moment, everyone present seems to be supported by this surging cloud! It seems that the famous "Water Pole Four Phenomena Gathering Spirit Formation" in Shangqing is operating normally again at this moment. When all these things were over, the head of Lingxu immediately invited everyone back to the inner hall of Guanzhong, and ordered Dao Tong's shop to arrange a banquet, accompany them personally, and clean up the dust for Hall Master Zhang.Now, in the eyes of these high priests, it is very natural and reasonable for the young hall master to sit with them. Then, during the banquet, after the Daoist Qingming of the Hongfa Hall offered Xingyan a glass of wine, he took a look at the two female disciples of the Four Seas Hall who were accompanying the young man, and then grabbed the jug again. Drunkenly said: "Come! I Qingming will offer another cup to the hall master!" "Ok?" Seeing this extremely upright Daoist Qingming being so polite, Xingyan felt a little uncomfortable.Just when he was hesitant, Qing Ming let out a "duh" and said loudly, "Master Zhang! According to your way, are you afraid that I, Qing Ming, will fail to get you drunk? This cup is actually Qing Ming's respect to you. That extraordinary concentration!" "Concentration?" This time Xingyan was even more puzzled, he didn't know why Qingming suddenly brought up concentration; he was muttering back, saying that concentration is a must for people in my generation, but Qingming interrupted it.This old Taoist priest who has a profound knowledge of Taoism raised his neck and drank half a glass of wine, and then said in a thunderous voice: "Master Zhang, don't be ashamed! I see that the female disciples in your hall look so outstanding." , can be said to be one in a million, but now you still have frowned eyebrows and a handsome face, I must have warned you that you have never done anything to them—” "Ahem!" Hearing what Qingming said, Xingyan blushed immediately, and stammered: "Actually, you said Xueyi and Qiongxi...they are my disciples, and I only treat them as sisters of the same school. I didn't expect anything else to happen…” "it is good!" Hearing what Xing Yan said, the other elders at the banquet immediately raised their glasses in admiration.However, the head of Lingxu smiled and said at this time: "Xingyan, it is naturally very good for you to have such determination and determination. But the so-called 'a real celebrity who can sing and cry, is not necessarily a good Taoist priest if he is ruthless', the harmony of yin and yang It’s the supreme Tao of heaven and earth, I went to the Taoist sect, and I didn’t prohibit my disciples from marrying, this...haha!" Speaking of this, Lingxu saw that the young hall master was red-faced and at a loss, so he stopped joking and stopped teasing him.But at this time, Daoist Qingming, who raised the issue, suddenly slapped the wine glass in his hand heavily on the case, opened his eyes wide, and shouted loudly: "Sigh! At first, the old Taoist thought that the scoundrel had a lot of promise! Now with Zhang Comparing with the hall master, it's really like clouds and mud!" "..." Seeing Qingming's sudden attack, Xingyan is at a loss. But after Qing Ming got angry, he mentioned this matter a little during the dinner.Only then did Xingyan realize why those disciples and disciples when they first entered the mountain all focused on Qiongxu.It turned out that this matter all happened to Hua Piaochen, the head disciple of Qingming. Hua Piaochen, a rare good friend and helpful friend of Xingyan, an outstanding young disciple of the Shangqing Palace, is brilliant, well-versed in Taoism, and was originally placed high hopes by Qingming and other elders.Unexpectedly, ever since Xingyan left Qianniaoya with Xueyi Qiongxun and went down the mountain to look for the water essence, his whole body became distraught, and he was out of his mind all day long. look like.Seeing him like this, the people in the door naturally want to ask more questions; but no matter who asks, Hua Piaochen refuses to say anything. Seeing this, several Shangqing elders wondered whether he was also possessed by a demon like Tian Renbao.So several elders dispatched together to exorcise him, but in the end it was of no avail. In the end, the reason for this strange incident was discovered by Du Ziheng, a disciple of Ziyun Palace who was in love with him.Du Ziheng saw that the person he liked was in a trance all day long, and he became perfunctory to himself, so with the most sensitive intuition of his daughter's family, he realized that this brother Hua should be empathizing with someone else and suffering from lovesickness! Du Ziheng was naturally very painful when she came to such a conclusion; but she was somewhat unwilling.Because, looking at the entire Shangqing Palace, among the female disciples, except for the two girls on Qianniaoya, who else can compare to Du Ziheng?What's more, the two female disciples under the head of Qianniaoya Zhang have already followed him down the mountain—— "ah!" Thinking about it like this, Du Ziheng would think that his favorite person is probably obsessed with a certain female disciple of Sihaitang! "It must be Miss Kou!" Unlike Yu Xiufeng, who had a lot of female disciples, there were only two female disciples in Qianniaoya, and it was easy for Du Ziheng to guess which girl made his sweetheart so obsessed.After figuring this out, the whole thing suddenly became clear: Piaochen must have gone to Qianniaoya in his daily life, and he didn't think much of it on weekdays, but when he really separated from Miss Xueyi, he suddenly realized that he was trapped in love and was deeply trapped in it! However, just when Du Ziheng thought he knew all the inside information, and went to question his sweetheart, he was told by the sleepy lover that the woman he was dreaming of was not the girl Kou, but the one who looked only eleven or twelve years old. Year-old little Qiongxi! "Ahem..." Although all the elders were extremely secretive about this matter because of Qiongxu's presence, the clever Hall Master Sihai still knew the whole story from just a few words.Amidst the embarrassment, he couldn't help but look back at the source of the turmoil beside him, wanting to see if she had such an appearance that turned all living beings upside down—who knew that when he turned his head, he saw the little girl with a bright smile and a smile , Qin Qin said: "I'll pour wine for brother—brother, is that brother Hua sick? When are we going to have a look and let Sister Xueyi grab some medicine!" After replying to the mission of going down the mountain, I will be free from trouble afterward.Hearing the advice of seniors, Xingyan did not take Qiongxun to see the sick leader of Qingming.Wake up and think about it, maybe it was just a momentary infatuation, and it will be better to be indifferent for a while-after all, how can a half-sized girl like Qiong Xi who has not yet grown up make people really fascinated? And now, Qiongxu has completely forgotten about it, and stays on Qianniao Cliff every day.Under the eaves of this thousand-year-old Yasihaitang stone house, a pair of swallows flew over at some point and were building their nests under the eaves.Seeing Chunyan build a nest, she found it very novel, so she focused on it all day long, and forgot about other things for a while——When the swallow’s nest was not built, Qiongxu was always paying attention to the progress of the nest; when the swallow’s nest was completed, She began to observe how the swallow couple raised their children and fed the baby swallows.Now Qiongxu has found a pattern, watching regularly every day, and giving each nest of baby swallows a nice name, although her brother Xingyan can't tell which nest of baby swallows is which. After more than a year of hard work, when he returned to Qianniao Cliff, Xingyan felt that such ordinary days were also very precious.Living in Qiandiao Yashi Residence, he has never paid attention to the peaceful world in front of him like now. At this time, it was March in Yangchun, and the flowers in Luofu Mountain were blooming like brocade, and the trees were verdant, and there was a scene of vitality everywhere.Looking from the Xiuyun Pavilion in front of Qianniaoya Stone Ping to the surrounding mountains and fields, you can see verdant trees everywhere like smoke, thousands of mountains are green, and there are gorgeous flower forests dotted among the mountains and forests like green waves and blue seas. Shining in the bright spring light, it seems that a bright rainbow from the sky has fallen to the ground and turned into pieces of colorful brocade.The emerald and bright spring light covers the sky and the earth, and also dyes the endless waterfall on the opposite mountain into a white jade ruyi flowing with precious light. Such mighty spring is everywhere. Inhaled by the lush and lush grass and flowers all over the mountain, Xingyan feels that the air around him is also full of strange vitality.In the originally empty and transparent air, it seems that there are countless invisible elves dancing all the time, following the melodious singing of spring birds in the mountains, dancing in the clear sky - because, if it is not because of their butterflies With such a dancing posture, how can there be bursts of grass and flowers on this quiet and windless Qianniao Cliff, constantly blowing into his mouth, nose and heart? As the saying goes, spring is like wine. In the spring of March, the Luofu Mountain Farm is brewing and transpiring into a jar of fine wine. I don't know how time goes by in the fragrance of birds and flowers, and it's the end of April before I know it.It was almost evening on this day, Xueyi Qiongxun was cooking in Shiju, and after waking up, he read scriptures in Xiuyun Pavilion.Occasionally, when I get tired of reading and take a rest after closing the book, there will be a shower of rain, sifting finely on the Qianniao Cliff.When the spring rain is dark, the patches of rain clouds in the distance have become as indistinguishable as the distant mountains. "Don't let the good days of spring and autumn go, it's hardest for an old friend to come in wind and rain." Seeing the cloud and rain coming suddenly, Xingyan couldn't help but recite a sentence.It's just that although the meaning in the sentence is good, but since Hua Piaochen fell into a love trap, there are few people on Qianniao Cliff, so how can there be any old people coming? It's just that I don't know if there is some reason behind it. Just after dinner in the evening on this day, when I woke up and looked at the sunset and mountain scenery after the clouds disappeared after the rain, I suddenly saw a burst of purple clouds in the sky. Among them is the sound of the ring pendant ringing!