Perhaps because the news from the north came back quickly enough, and the Shendu side has been vigorously promoting it, the people of Daliang Prefecture to the south, including Changping Prefecture, are still relatively concerned about the war in the north these days.

optimistic.

Although the imperial court levied an additional tax a few days ago, the bulk of it was still on wealthy households, and the lives of ordinary people were not affected at all.

From this point of view alone, the Liang Dynasty was different from previous dynasties. The treasury of the previous dynasties was empty, and they either acted on the ideas of merchants or the common people. But judging from the actions of the current court, whether it is merchants or common people, the court

No idea how to exploit them.

In fact, this can be regarded as a reassurance for the people. If the court acts like a dog jumping over the wall at this moment, then to them, it is tantamount to telling them clearly that the building will collapse. This building has been built for more than 200 years.

The dynasty will become history.

However, the people were still nervous for a period of time, that is, the period when the monster tribe started to knock on the gate. Although not much news was passed down, the sporadic news that was heard was unfavorable to the court.

After hearing this news, many people wanted to go north. Fortunately, the parents and officials from various places comforted them, and these enthusiastic people temporarily gave up this idea.

But in fact, both the local officials and the other people and monks who were paying close attention to the news in the north had their hearts in their throats. Later, it was the news of the defense of the north that came back, which made the officials and people

Breathed a sigh of relief.

Although there have been wars with the demon clan from time to time, and in the past two hundred years, no demon clan army has ever breached the Great Wall of the North, this victory still caused people in many places to celebrate.

There are many visitors in Qingshan Prefecture Road, and the customs of the people here are also closer to the Taoist gate. In addition to those traditional festivals, the people here also have some extended festivals. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a Bitter Wood Festival. Rumor has it that

Daozu was born in a mountain called Kuqiao. After he founded the Taoist sect, the Taoist monks designated Daozu's birthday as an extremely important day in the Taoist sect. At first, it was only within the Taoist sect, and then gradually spread out, forming a Qingshan state.

The common people all celebrated the Bitter Woods Festival. .??.

All the dynasties in the past dynasties highly respected Taoism, which has always been prosperous, so they did not dare to say anything. During the Jin Dynasty, the court even issued a special document, declaring the Bitter Wood Festival to be as important as the Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals.

Festival, but after the Liang Dynasty, the court canceled such things, but it did not force the people not to celebrate such festivals.

It happened that when the news from the north reached Qingshan Prefecture, it coincided with the Bitter Wood Festival. Originally, the Bitter Wood Festival had not grown in scale in recent years. However, when such news happened, many people regarded it as a blessing from the Taoist ancestors.

Therefore, this year's Woodcutter Festival will be much grander than in previous years.

This is especially true in Danxiao County.

Just hearing this name is enough to know that the connection between this county and Taoism is profound. In fact, it is indeed the case. This county was originally the place of practice of a Taoist master. Although the Taoist master said that he was born

Although he was on the path of immortality, he highly admired the lineage of Taiping path. He once wanted to leave the path of immortality and join Taiping path.

You must know that such a Taoist master is not only a high enough realm, but also has a high prestige in the Taoist sect. Naturally, the lineage of the Immortality Dao cannot allow such a thing to happen. This is not just a matter of a person leaving the Immortality Dao, but a person who will leave the Immortality Dao.

It would damage the image of the Tao of Immortality, but the other party was already a great Taoist sect, so ordinary methods were not easy to use. Finally, with the mediation of Chixin Guan, some kind of agreement was finally reached, allowing the Taoist sect to find a real person.

The local government devotes itself to studying the teachings and context of the Taiping Dao, but it cannot be said that it wants to withdraw from the Immortal Dao.

So the Taoist great master established this Danxiao County.

However, as the Taoist master later emerged, the Immortal Taoist lineage once wanted to destroy this county. However, in the final consultation, some of them could not reach an agreement. In the end, everyone turned a blind eye and let the secular world

The people settled in this city without anyone caring about it. After that, successive dynasties began to expand it, and it now has the scale it has today.

However, since it was originally built by the Taoist Master, the Taoist atmosphere here is actually very strong, down to the Taoist symbols on the buildings in the city. In addition, most of the people in the city are Taoist believers. It can be said that although the city is nominally a

The jurisdiction of Daliang, in fact...I am afraid that the words of the young infatuated temple master will be more effective here than the current Crown Prince.

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The Bitter Wood Festival lasts for three days, and there is a lantern festival on the last night. Therefore, the people in the county town had dinner early tonight and gathered in the center of the county town, where the lights were brightly lit.

Countless lanterns are hung on those tall buildings, and on dozens of streets, there are all kinds of paper lanterns above everyone's head.

"Sister Liang, who are the people painted on those paper lanterns?"

Among the people who came to watch the lantern festival, there were a few people who didn't fit in. They were all dressed in roughly the same way, all in snow-white, but their aura made it clear at a glance that they were not ordinary women.

However, the people around them are not that afraid. In today's situation, the people no longer keep a distance from monks outside the country, but are very afraid of them.<

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You must know that last year alone, there were more than 20 cases of foreign monks insulting the people of Daliang. Most of them were compensated and apologized by the sect. In a small number of cases, because the matter was serious, the guardian Yamen in Shendu sent people

To deal with it, it is said that there was a small sect. In the end, because of the quarrel, most of the sect was broken up by the imperial guards and officials.

As soon as these things came out, it was undoubtedly a reassurance for the people. With such a court, such officials, and such a handling method, the monks outside Fang have nothing to fear as long as they do not take the initiative to cause trouble.

At this moment, there were even some people who looked at the women who looked unusual and looked at them a few more times.

Those women didn't show any emotions, but even they were probably a little curious about the changes in the world today.

It's really too fast.

How many years has it been?

The Liang Dynasty had only been established for more than two hundred years, the emperor had only been on the throne for more than ten years, and the young man had only become the guardian envoy for a few years.

Is this how the world has become?

Senior Sister Liang didn't have to look up to see the paper lantern above her head, she knew who was painted on it. The woman who had been confirmed to be the next mountain master of Songxi Mountain smiled and said: "Since there are Taoist sects everywhere here,

It’s the Woodcutter Festival again. Who is this person? Need we say more?”

The woman who asked the question was also quick-thinking. She raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Then it must be Dao Ancestor."

As a result, Senior Sister Liang shook her head and said with a smile: "It's the Taoist master who established Danxiao County."

The woman was startled, then rolled her eyes at her senior sister and said, "Senior sister has started to act up again."

When the other women heard this, they would all smile. Some of them were senior sisters of Senior Sister Liang, and some were junior sisters.

Since this Senior Sister Liang is definitely the next mountain master of Songxi Mountain, she should have a high status in the mountain. To be able to talk to her in such a tone means that she either has a very good relationship with her, or this woman has no airs at all.

But judging from the other women, it should probably be the latter.

Senior Sister Liang pointed at the woman's forehead and joked: "Ye Fu, you are a bit smart, but when you encounter something, you have to think more about whether you are smart enough. If you are like this, you may suffer big losses in the future.

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The woman named Ye Fu is surnamed Liu. She has only been on the mountain not long ago, but she is extremely talented. She is known as the best young talent in Songxi Mountain in the past hundred years. Even if the mountain owner had not already determined the position of the next mountain owner, many

Everyone doubted that she would be the next mountain owner.

But even so, many Songxi Mountain disciples also believe that Liang Jinjin, who has been determined to be the next mountain master, may take the initiative to pass the throne to his junior sister in a few years.

It's hard to say what Yamanaka will think when the time comes.

"You have senior sister's guidance, so learn slowly."

Liu Yefu stuck out his tongue, changed the subject and said: "It is said that if there is one place in Daliang Dynasty that is not under the jurisdiction of Daliang, it should be this place, but why do they seem to be more happy about winning the battle in the north than

It’s the Woodcutter Festival?”

Liang Jinjin was stunned. In fact, when she entered the city, she also noticed this. In previous years, during the Bitter Woods Festival, the only thing to do was watch paper lanterns, but this year, there was a new addition of putting paper boats up and down the river that ran through Danxiao City.

Putting down the paper boat and letting it slowly flow out of the county has always been a custom used by the people of Daliang to pray that people who have traveled far away can return safely and everything is peaceful.

When they passed by the upper reaches before, they could even see the people asking some letter writers to write words on the paper boats such as "The beam will win and the Great Wall in the north will not fall".

As we walked along the way, we could see that the people seemed to be a little distracted when visiting the lantern festival. Most of them were holding paper boats in their hands and hurried to the river.

This kind of change is actually difficult to detect for those who are not careful, but it seems a bit difficult to explain to Liang Jinjin.

After a moment of silence, Liang Jinjin said casually: "Maybe we just bumped into each other."

Liu Yefu muttered to himself, "Where did we bump into each other? Could it be that these people, who are said to be the most devout believers in the Taoist sect, have begun to become less religious?"

Just as Liang Jinjin was about to speak to ask Liu Yefu to be careful, he saw a familiar figure appearing in front of him not far away.

A young man, alone, wearing a blue robe, looked well-mannered, and could be described as "fengshenruyu".

It's just that a few women were almost unmoved. The reason is simple. They are not ordinary monks. Songxi Mountain is one of the sects of Qi Refiners in the North. Compared with ordinary monks, Qi Refiners must be more sophisticated.

For looking down upon everything in this world.

Besides, although this young man is pretty good, compared to the infatuated young viewer,

Still too different.

You must know that the young master of Chixin Kuan now has a saying in the spiritual world that he is banished to immortals.

"Jinjin, I said earlier that I would come to see the lantern festival, so why didn't I accompany you? Luoshui Mountain has been in Danxiao County for so many years, why is it not considered a half-owner? The friendship of a landlord must be fulfilled.

"

The young man walked towards several people with a smile on his face.

Liang Jinjin's expression remained unchanged, and his face remained expressionless. He just shouted lightly, "Master Gu Shaoshan."

This young man's name is Gu Shaofeng, and he is the young master of Luoshui Mountain. Liang Jinjin came to Qingshan Prefecture on this trip just to negotiate a deal with Luoshui Mountain. However, during the first meeting, the two parties did not reach a consensus.

However, Gu Shaofeng was very interested in Liang Jinjin and hinted to Songxi Mountain intentionally or unintentionally that if Liang Jinjin was willing to be his Taoist companion, then the deal would definitely be completed.

If it were anyone else, the mountain owner of Songxi Mountain would have nodded, but when it came to Liang Jinjin, the mountain owner really didn't express his position on this.

In fact, everyone in Songxi Mountain knows one thing, that is, the reason why Liang Jinjin was designated as the next mountain master is because of her relationship with the young guardian envoy.

During the trip to the north many years ago, these two people met and were considered acquaintances. Liang Jinjin did a good job of hiding it from him at first, but as the reputation of the young guard envoy became more and more popular over the years, something happened.

Naturally, I couldn’t hide it.
To be continued...