"By the way, do you still remember the silver spearman we met today?"
"Remember, you killed him?"
Ye Long didn't have much impression of this person. At that time, he was completely focused on finding the ancestor of Frostleaf City for a duel, and had no worries about this uninvited guest.
"Yes, I killed him, but more importantly, he had magical abilities that are only available in the West, and this ability cannot be detected by those of us."
After hearing what Captain Cui said, Ye Long was a little surprised. This was really the first time he heard about Western magic. Could it be that the West also has people who practice Taoism like China?
"Why do people from the West come to trouble me?"
Ye Long was a little surprised. He had never dealt with Westerners. He had never even met any Westerners except foreigners on TV. He didn't know why someone would come to him.
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"This is just what I want to know, because we don't know anything about Western magic, and now we must find out about it."
"Just wait to contact me later. I don't have time to care about this Western monk now."
Ye Longxia was extremely sleepy now, but when he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, and this thing was very important.
"Captain Cui."
"Um?"
'You should be a descendant of Lu Ban, right?'
Ye Long blurted out these words, and when Captain Cui heard this, he paused and asked pretending to be confused:
"What descendant of Lu Ban? Why can't I understand what you are talking about?"
"No need to pretend anymore, Captain Cui, you are a descendant of Lu Ban, and if I guess correctly, you are Master He Ye, one of Lu Ban's one hundred disciples!"
Ye Longxin slowly watched Captain Cui's reaction. Captain Cui's shock turned into helplessness. Captain Cui shook his head and said:
"How did you figure it out?"
"First, your hands are so slender. It looks like they have been operating precision machinery all year round. Ordinary people, not even women, have such slender fingers;
Secondly, the mechanism mirror just now should have been invented, but you are not a Taoist, so you can only rely on machinery, that is, mechanism technology;
Thirdly, I once met a descendant of the Mo family, and he had jewelry similar to yours. I think it should be the token of the mechanic;
The last point is a legend I heard since childhood."
Seeing Ye Long speaking so coherently, Captain Cui couldn't help but clapped his hands. Although his identity had been changed, he still admired Ye Long's reasoning ability and asked:
"What legend?"
Although Ye Long was very tired, he also began to tell Captain Cui a story he heard his grandmother tell when he was a child.
A long time ago, there were beautiful waters and abundant fields on both sides of the Wei River. People lived a life with no worries about food and clothing and good weather. They all regarded this land as a blessed land. It is said that when disasters come here, it will become less harsh, hence the name -
——Linqing.
Others say that the city was named Linqing because it was built near the Daqing River. No matter what, people are proud to live on this land and love it very much.
Unpredictable things happen, and at some point, a thousand-year-old bastard came to the Weihe River. He could call the wind and rain, raise thousands of feet of waves, bring down thousands of houses, turn tens of thousands of acres of fertile land into waste, and make thousands of children frightened by his roar.
Crying. We usually bully men and dominate women, and do all kinds of evil. People can no longer see the beautiful and happy scene before.
This water demon has set a rule with the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait: Thousands of tons of grain, ten thousand tons of rice, and a pair of boys and girls every year, otherwise you will all become shrimps, crabs, fish and turtles. How can the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait dare not listen?
If you resist even a little bit, you will be retaliated by the water flooding the river embankment. You can only live in silence. Some people can't bear to be bullied and run away from home. Some young people are unwilling to be humiliated. They go to the river to fight to the death with the devil, and they all become its prey. Life
People in terror can only pray to God to eliminate the harm to the people.
This matter was seen by the wise eyes of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea, and he was moved with compassion and prepared to get rid of this demon. He stepped on the auspicious clouds, came here, threw the jade purification bottle in her hand into the river, recited the incantation, and cleverly
Using magic, he put the monster and a river of water into the bottle.
Using his finger as a pestle, he dug a thousand-meter-deep well, put the monster into the well, covered it, and invited Master Lu Ban to build a pagoda on it so that the monster would no longer do evil. When he left, the Bodhisattva did not take away the jade purification bottle.
The willow branches inside were removed, so there were many willow trees on both sides of the bank, which is still the same today.
Lu Ban was invited and brought a hundred apprentices to build the pagoda. After ten years, ten months and ten days of construction, the pagoda was finally completed on this day. When it was completed, Lu Ban said to his disciples:
"It's completed today, everyone, please do the preparatory work after the construction! I'll treat everyone to eat dumplings today to celebrate."
All the apprentices went to work happily. Master Lu Ban stopped the youngest apprentice and said:
"Come on with me."
The apprentice followed the master.
The young apprentice was wondering when the dumplings for the hundred and ten people would be ready. The master asked him to boil the water. I don’t know what the master did, but after a while the big pot started boiling.
Lu Ban said to his disciple: "Disciple, please turn your face away."
The apprentice turned away obediently. He just didn't know what the master wanted to do and why he was asked to turn away. He couldn't help his curiosity, so he secretly turned around to take a look at the master. He saw that the master was untying his clothes.
He was squatting by the pot and sucking dumplings into the pot. The apprentice was so frightened that he closed his eyes and felt nauseated. He had to turn around and listen to the master's instructions.
The master said: "Turn your face and light the fire"!
After the pot was boiled, the disciples were called to each have a bowl of dumplings with thin skin and large fillings. The disciples who ate the dumplings shouted, "Smells, smells...".
The disciple looked at it and couldn't eat it.
None of the disciples ate any of them. After eating, Lu Ban said to the disciples: "Disciples, you will become immortals after eating my dumplings, and you will all live forever."
At this time, the young disciple regretted it too much. Lu Ban said to the young disciple again: "Your blessing has not yet arrived, so practice for another thousand years!"
So he let the young disciple drink a bowl of soup, and said to the young disciple: "In a thousand years, when seven people with the same surname meet seven people riding donkeys, this tower will collapse. By then, you will be able to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal."
, this bowl of soup can make you live a thousand years."
After saying that, he took ninety-nine apprentices to the fairyland, leaving only one young apprentice. Today, the Linqing Tower still stands on the edge of the Wei River. Who knows where Master Lu Ban’s young apprentice has gone?
Lu Ban also had a disciple whose name is unknown. He had a wound on his foot and was bandaged with lotus leaves. Because of his superb skills, people rushed to learn from him, but he was thrown into the furnace and turned into smoke. He was known as the "Lotus Leaf Master".