In the blink of an eye, it is already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day to drink Laba porridge.
The so-called Laba Festival originated from Buddhism. It was a festival to celebrate the Buddha's enlightenment. Later, Buddhism and Taoism merged, and Taoism also retained this festival. However, after Buddhism and Taoism turned against each other, Taoism no longer used the saying of Buddha's enlightenment, and instead used the term "Tai Shang Hua Hu".
statement.
Every Laba Festival, Dazhen Mansion will cook Laba porridge, and invite relatives and friends to Dazhen Mansion to drink porridge and spend the festival together. It is also regarded as a party at the end of the year. However, even if it is friends and relatives, not everyone can be invited. They must be
A Taoist priest of the third grade Youyi or above, or a direct descendant of the Zhang family, or someone specially invited by the Da Zhen Mansion.
As for the Laba porridge in Dazhen Mansion, it is naturally not the ordinary Laba porridge. Originally, the ingredients of Laba porridge were red dates, lotus seeds, tangerine seeds, dried longan, red beans, etc. However, Dazhen Mansion added many rare medicinal materials, including the very cherished
Zhu Guo. .??.
The red fruit blooms for a hundred years and bears fruit for a hundred years. It is a very yang thing. If an ordinary person takes it, his internal organs will be burned to death by the strong fire contained in it. But if you can resist the fire, you can use the medicinal power of the red fruit.
And gain the realm of cultivation.
There are very few red fruit trees in the world. There are only a few red fruit trees that are more than a thousand years old in Yunjin Mountain and Kunlun Cave. No one has the opportunity to see them. Even if you are lucky enough to get one, you would not dare to take it rashly. But add Laba porridge.
The red fruits in it have been processed in advance to remove part of the blazing fire, and other medicinal materials have been used to neutralize it. It can be said to be a great tonic. Therefore, if you can go to Dazhen Mansion to drink Laba porridge, not only will your face be glowing, but your own cultivation will also be greatly improved.
It is beneficial.
Tantai Qiong, Zhang Yuyue, and Zhang Yuelu all received the invitation. Tantai Qiong was a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, Zhang Yuyue was a direct descendant of the Zhang family, and Zhang Yuelu was named by the Heavenly Master. So the three of them went to Dazhen Mansion to drink Laba porridge.
Only Zhang Kuqi and Qi Xuansu are left at home.
Qi Xuansu didn't care. He was a small seventh-grade Taoist priest, and his surname was not Zhang. It was reasonable that he was not qualified to participate in such a grand event. It was only because he didn't know how to deal with himself that he was surrounded by high-grade Taoist priests.
He is just a low-grade Taoist priest who is not popular among the people. He may not be as high-grade as the Taoist priest responsible for entertaining guests. It is embarrassing to think about it.
However, Zhang Kuqi did not receive the invitation, which is a bit unreasonable. Although he is not a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, he is also among the high-grade Taoist priests, and his surname is Zhang. More importantly, his wife and daughter all went to the meeting, and the family of three only
It was awkward to be left alone.
It's just that Zhang Kuqi looked at ease, as if he had been used to it for a long time. Not only did he not feel disappointed or dissatisfied, but he was also interested in going out to play chess and drink with his old friends who also failed to have Laba porridge. From this, Zhang Kuqi did not receive the invitation.
It's not been a year or two. Thinking again that Zhang Kuqi has been stuck in the position of the fourth-grade wine-offering Taoist priest, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but
From this, I came up with a guess that this Uncle Zhang may have some conflicts with my family.
After Zhang Yuelu left, Qi Xuansu thought that nothing would happen. Seeing that Tantai Qiong and Zhang Yuyue were not there, he wandered alone on Yunjin Mountain. After all, it was not easy to come here, so he naturally wanted to see the scenery of Yunjin Mountain. Of course, there are some forbidden areas on Yunjin Mountain.
However, they are clearly marked and guarded by dedicated personnel, so Qi Xuansu is not afraid of entering the forbidden area by mistake.
Unknowingly, Qi Xuansu came to a cliff.
There was originally a Taoist temple here, built on the cliff. You can look out at the sea of clouds outside the mountain from the Taoist temple. It is an excellent viewing place. However, because of Xuan Sheng, the mountain peak here collapsed, and the Taoist temple also slipped into the abyss below.
Among them, only half of the extremely abrupt cliffs, some ruins of walls and a bell tower that luckily escaped disaster were left.
Qi Xuansu climbed up to the bell tower and looked at the vast sea of clouds.
In fact, he is not interested in the sea of clouds, or not that interested. What really interests him is the majestic power that creates such a scene. In a rage, mountains and rivers shift, and the land changes shape. The so-called immortal power that moves mountains and seas.
That's all.
I wonder when he will become so powerful.
With such great power, even the Dazhen Mansion would bow its head, and the Qingping Society would no longer be a big mountain pressing on his back. He can move the mountain or destroy it, it all depends on his will. Of course, Qi Xuansu also
It was Qiniang who saved his life, and he always kept it in his mind. However, he never regarded Qiniang and Qingping Association as the same. If the day came, he would let Qiniang be the leader of Qingping Association.
That must be something interesting.
While Qi Xuansu was daydreaming here, he heard slight footsteps behind him.
Qi Xuansu turned around and saw a woman appearing at the stairs on the first floor, seemingly planning to climb the stairs.
From Qi Xuansu's point of view, this woman is very beautiful, with a charming look in the corners of her eyes. When she walks, she looks like a weak willow supporting the wind. She is extremely beautiful.
However, Qi Xuansu has traveled around the world for many years, and under Qiniang's words and deeds, he knows some fortune-telling skills, which are the basic contents of "Ziwei Dou Shu" and "Innate Divine Calculation". Judging from the face alone, this woman's Dou Shupan
In the middle, the Taiyin in the palace of life changes into wealth, the life is red luan, the face is peach blossoms, and there are few people, evil spirits. He is not a treacherous or evil person, but he is not a kind person either.
To put it simply, this girl doesn't look like a good person.
Qi Xuansu immediately felt alarmed
Be careful and step back slowly.
He has been in the world a lot, and his heart will never be clean. Qi Xuansu is always not afraid to judge others with the greatest malice. Not long ago, he just offended Tantai Qiong and Zhang Yuyue. These two women are not good at all. He has been secretly
Be prepared, after much thought, Tantai Qiong would not take his life directly in Yunjin Mountain, but would use some other means.
In fact, no matter whether it is in the Jianghu or the temple, many of the methods are the same, and there is no difference between them. The dirty tricks in the Jianghu can also be used in other places.
So what will it be?
The moment Qi Xuansu saw this woman, three words "immortal jump" popped into his mind. This is a very common method in the world, using beautiful women as bait to set up scams to obtain money. However, Qi Xuansu quickly rejected the "immortal jump"
, turned into five other words: "rape a woman's mouth."
The so-called "raping a woman out of her body" is an ancient law. As long as a woman puts aside her face and reputation, she identifies a man as having an affair with her and says who it is, without any evidence, the man can be ruined.
Because Neo-Confucianism attaches great importance to women's integrity, after a woman identifies her adulterer, her reputation will be ruined and she will even pay a greater price than a man. Therefore, few women will make false accusations at will.
After all, Confucianism was once the orthodoxy of the world, and Taoism was inevitably tainted with the habits of Confucianism. Although there was no explicit rule, it also regarded "raping women out of their families" as an unwritten rule.
However, this involves another problem. After the rise of Xinxue, the social atmosphere has changed greatly. The Taoist sect no longer attaches as much importance to women's reputation as in the past, but it still continues to follow the rule of "raping a woman out of her mouth". Some people have seen that
The price became smaller, the benefits were more profitable, and the advantages outweighed the disadvantages, so false accusations became common.
If this kind of thing really happens, as long as two people have been in the same room, no matter whether it is true or false, it will be difficult to argue. Even a high-quality Taoist priest will inevitably suffer a bloody head and skin peeling off even if he is not dead.
Even if the chest is cut open to prove the traces of the heart, so what, at most the onlookers will disperse, but the reputation has been ruined, and the cut chest cannot be restored to its original state. ??
Only a truly powerful person can suppress this kind of thing. How could Qi Xuansu, a small seventh-grade Taoist priest, dare to test the "Dharma" himself?
As the saying goes, it is necessary to be on guard against others. It is better to believe what they have than to believe what they have not. That is enough in normal times. Now is the time when Qi Xuansu is most wary. He believes that Tantai Qiong can use such despicable means.
Qi Xuansu looked around and found that there was only one way up and down the bell tower, which was already occupied by women climbing the tower. There was a cliff on the other side. Looking from top to bottom, the wall of the bell tower and the rock wall of the cliff were almost in a straight line.
, there is not even a bulge on the edge, and there is an abyss below.
Qi Xuansu suddenly fell into a dilemma.
The woman climbed the stairs leisurely, and every step seemed to be stepping on Qi Xuansu's heart.
The woman's figure climbed higher step by step. When the woman's upper body was above the ground on the second floor of the bell tower, Qi Xuansu had already retreated to the edge of the bell tower and leaned her back on the railing.
The woman finally climbed up to the bell tower and met Qi Xuansu face to face. She raised a smile, and as soon as she said the word "Master", the expression on her face suddenly froze.
Qi Xuansu was seen falling backwards and falling into the abyss below.
For a moment, the woman froze on the spot.
Of course, Qi Xuansu did not want to commit suicide. During the fall, he had already pulled out the "Qingyuan" from his waist, then adjusted his body shape and stabbed into the cliff below the bell tower. With his tyrannical physique comparable to that of a martial artist
, the downward trend was stopped.
Then Qi Xuansu's five fingers were like hooks, piercing into the cliff, and while fixing his body, he pulled out "Qingyuan".
This thought was both ingenious and unexpected. Qi Xuansu then used his arms and fingers to crawl out along the cliff like a gecko swimming on a wall.
Only then did the woman react and quickly walked to the railing, leaned out and looked down.
All that could be seen was the white mist, and Qi Xuansu's figure was nowhere to be seen.
The woman stamped her foot fiercely: "Who is he? Am I so scary?"
As a result, the woman didn't know what to do, and all the means of advance preparation were useless.
Not long after, the sound of footsteps climbing up the stairs was heard again.
After a while, three more people went upstairs. The leader was Zhang Yuyue. However, she did not go to Dazhen Mansion to drink Laba porridge. After all, she was the daughter of the Zhang family. She really didn't care much about the Laba porridge that others considered precious.
The other two, Shenhua, were restrained and obviously not mediocre. They were helpers that Zhang Yuyue temporarily found from the Dazhen Mansion, and they were guaranteed to capture Qi Xuansu.
Zhang Yuyue looked around and saw no sign of Qi Xuansu. She frowned and asked, "Where are the people?"
The woman pursed her lips in the direction of the railing and said, "I jumped directly before we even met each other. It was really eye-opening."
Zhang Yuyue walked quickly to the railing, leaned over the railing and looked around. All she could see was the mist, and Qi Xuansu had already escaped without a trace.
Zhang Yuyue was filled with hatred and slapped the railing hard: "What a cunning boy! He is really not a good person!"