Chapter 264: Really the Weishui River God
Lin Jue originally wanted to buy bedding, but Master Fan was too polite and had the old servant prepare it for them, and it was delivered to the yard in the afternoon.
In this way, the yard can be lived in immediately.
It saved them some effort.
This made Lin Jue feel a little embarrassed, and even Mr. Luo couldn't bear to be rude to this liar anymore.
Then the three of them checked out of the inn, led the horses and donkeys in, moved in the luggage, and after packing some more things into the empty yard, it began to look somewhat presentable.
Live here today.
Once I settled in, I found that I was quite satisfied with everything:
The house was large, with enough space for Taoists to take a stroll, for warriors to practice martial arts, for foxes to run, jump and dig holes, as well as for people to go fishing by the lake, sit quietly under the willow trees and play chess in the pavilion.
There are also stables for raising horses.
Living in the small courtyard, it is quiet at night and not noisy in the early morning, but if you go out of the big courtyard, it is very lively.
There is a main street outside the door. In the early morning, there are many peddlers coming here. You can buy all kinds of common rice, flour, vegetables and meat. There are also many idle men waiting for orders on the street. If you want to buy something else but it is too far, or if you want to deliver a message somewhere, you can pay them some money to help you run errands.
It is said that it is not easy to find a place to live in the capital. Just after arriving here, I can have a place like this in the capital. Although it is not my own, I live with two other people, which greatly exceeded Lin Jue's expectations.
Early next morning.
Lin Jue sat cross-legged in front of the desk in the quiet room, holding only a handwritten book in his hands.
There was a slightly strange sound of footsteps coming from outside.
Not long after, the junior sister appeared at the door, holding three large jars in each hand, a total of six large jars, which were as light as a feather and parked steadily at the door.
Lin Jue looked up at her, somewhat puzzled:
"Why did you buy so many jars? Didn't you buy a chicken and couldn't take anything else?"
"I'm not taking it back."
"You're not taking it back? You bought it for me?"
"Brother, please make some pickled vegetables and fill these jars. Next time I come to the capital, I will bring them back to the mountain to eat."
"...You don't cook rice and eat pickled vegetables every day, right?"
Upon hearing this, the junior sister just said seriously: "Sauerkraut is delicious! It's also delicious when cooked!"
"Put it here. I'll do it when I'm free. I don't have time these days." Lin Jue said helplessly, and handed over the book in his hand. "This is the method of Wood Release. I originally planned to teach you a few spells, but I taught you the others on the way. This is the only one left."
"Oh."
The junior sister came in and took the book.
It can be seen that the paper was cut by oneself and strung together with needle and thread, so the cutting is not neat and the strung is a bit messy.
Open it and take a look——
They are all densely packed handwriting.
The junior sister couldn't help but be stunned.
When I went down the mountain to see off the other brothers, the envelopes they handed to them contained books like this, right? There were so many books, I wonder how long it took to finish writing them all.
“Is this the only subject you wrote about?”
"..."
Lin Jue got up and went back, taking out several books, all of which were what she had already learned, and gave them to her.
"Thank you, senior brother."
The junior sister said while holding a few books.
"Go back to the mountain. The New Year will be here soon. I'll go to Fengshan to find you then. Or if you find it too cold in the mountains, you can come to the capital to watch the New Year's Eve in the capital."
"I'm leaving."
"We have to walk faster. It's going to rain in the afternoon."
"understood."
The junior sister left.
The colorful cat naturally left as well.
Mr. Luo is a man of the world, so naturally he has the things that belong to the world of the world. No one knows where he went.
The courtyard was extremely quiet for a while.
However, knowing that his junior sister was not far away and that he was only staying here temporarily, Lin Jue did not feel lonely. Instead, he sat by the door in his Taoist robe, watching the little fox in the yard jumping up and down, sometimes running to the foot of the wall to find a suitable place to dig a hole, sometimes running to the weeping crabapple tree in the yard to sniff around, and sometimes jumping onto the courtyard wall. The Taoist felt quite calm and at ease.
There was wind blowing through the eaves, bringing a slight chill.
In the afternoon, it really started raining.
This mansion was built with great care. Even the eaves of this small courtyard have rain chains, which look like layers of lotus flowers. The rain falls along the layers of lotus flowers, making a slight sound, which makes people feel calm.
This was a winter rain, which made the capital city even colder.
The Taoist priest still sat by the door without moving.
It is inconvenient to go out in this kind of weather, so you should light a charcoal fire in the yard and carve spiritual wood in front of the charcoal fire, which is also an elegant thing. However, he did nothing and just watched the rain.
“Sitting alone, watching the wind and rain.
"Listen to the wind and rain and sleep soundly."
Lin Jue laughed, finally got up and closed the door.
The fox brought back a dead branch from somewhere to play with.
The Taoist picked it up, blew on it, and tiny pear blossoms bloomed on it. He put it in a vase in the quiet room, which immediately added some color to the room and improved his mood a lot.
Only then did Lin Jue sit down cross-legged.
He looked around to see if the doors and windows were closed, then took out a night lamp, lit it and placed it on the right side of the table, and put ten taels of silver in the middle of the table. Finally, he took out a wooden sculpture.
The fox was also on the lookout.
"call……"
White smoke appeared on the wood carving and it turned into a big-headed ghost.
"Eat."
Lin Jue said to it helplessly.
This was the last bit of silver he had, the rest were copper coins. Not to mention what the silver-eating ghost would eat next month, even he himself would have to wait until the Juxian Mansion issued the tribute money next month before he could have money to eat.
However, thinking about the promise he made to the silver-eating ghost and that Mr. Luo, who lived with him, was also very rich, Lin Jue decided to feed it first.
So I just watched it eat here, while thinking about my own things in my heart.
If he could learn some magic spells when he came to the Gathering Immortals Mansion, it would naturally be a great gain. If he could find food for the silver-eating ghosts, it would also be a gain. If he could gather more materials for a golden elixir, it would be even more surprising. However, for now, he still put "obtaining the Great Yin-Yang Method and the Five Elements Spiritual Method" at the top of the list.
Among the Taoists in the world, most of them practice the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Method, while fewer people practice the Yin-Yang Spiritual Method and the Five Elements Spiritual Method. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Method is moderate and balanced, with few advantages and few disadvantages.
The Yin-Yang magic is mysterious and prolongs life, but it is divided into big Yin-Yang and small Yin-Yang. The small Yin-Yang is slower to practice, so even if it has the effect of prolonging life, it is not easy to achieve enlightenment.
The Five Elements Spiritual Technique is good at fighting, and the speed of practice is moderate, but it is not helpful for prolonging life. Unless it is combined with a longevity method such as alchemy, one must have extremely outstanding talent to have a chance of becoming an immortal.
Therefore, in the past few hundred years, most of the immortals who have achieved enlightenment through spiritual methods have actually practiced the spiritual methods of heaven and earth.
Lin Jue speculated that the Five Elements Spiritual Technique might be easier to obtain.
Moreover, the Yin-Yang spiritual arts are mostly found in the deep mountains, while the Five Elements spiritual arts are mostly found among the independent cultivators in the martial arts world. The Juxian Mansion is gathering these independent cultivators, so it should not be difficult to obtain them.
I have to ask Master Fan myself.
But that Master Fan is only a name, and I don't know if he knows about this...
It didn't take long for the silver-eating ghost to finish his meal. He thanked him and returned to the wood carving with satisfaction.
Lin Jue also put aside all distracting thoughts, took a freshly-made Lingyuan Pill and swallowed it in one gulp. Then he sat cross-legged on the cushion, closed his eyes, and practiced meditation.
There is a sound of rain outside the window.
The spiritual charm of the capital city is mixed, and there is moisture on rainy days, but no matter what it is, it has become a part of his practice and enlightenment at this moment.
……
A middle-aged man with an ordinary face walked to the gate of the house. He was wearing a straw raincoat but it had been soaked by the rain. He was wearing a straw hat but water was also dripping from his head. He looked like a fisherman by the river, but this fisherman seemed not afraid of the rain or the cold. He opened the door and came in with a calm expression.
After walking a short distance into the door, he saw a white wall next to him. It was clear and clean, but there were two lines of words written on the wall abruptly, which made him frown.
I knew in my heart that it must be the fox in the yard causing trouble again.
"These foxes..."
The man frowned, and kept talking:
"I'll take care of you tomorrow!"
Just as I walked to the center of the courtyard and passed the small lake, I saw a figure standing in the pavilion.
He was also a middle-aged man, wearing a Taoist robe, with a thin figure and a beard. He looked quite like an immortal. He stood here for no other reason than to simply enjoy the rain.
“This Taoist…”
The man whispered again.
In fact, he also had some doubts whether Master Fan was as powerful as he boasted. It was just that some skills really could not be seen or tested under normal circumstances, such as the skills of the talisman school. If the gods or heavenly soldiers were not really invited down, no one would know whether they were real or not. In addition, this Taoist's aura was really extraordinary, so he was a little unsure.
Last time, he was encouraged to find the Crocodile King to see if he lived up to his reputation, but unexpectedly, he was lucky and escaped with nothing.
Just as I was thinking about it, the man seemed to have heard the footsteps, turned around, and smiled:
"So it's Mr. Pan who's back. He hasn't been here for the past few days. Where did he go?"
"riverside."
"Hasn't the demon king been eliminated? Why hasn't Lord Pan returned to his position in the river?"
"Don't worry about it, fellow Taoist."
"Haha, don't worry, don't worry. I just happened to meet Mr. Pan, so I told him something." Fan Tianshi said, "I wonder if he met anyone from the Ministry of Rites on Pan Road. Did they tell Mr. Pan that there is a new neighbor in our yard, living in the small yard on the left?"
"The one with the fox?"
"Exactly."
"I was just about to take care of that fox!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Pan. I haven't told you who our new neighbor is." Master Fan looked at him with a smile, wanting to see his expression.
"who is it?"
"His surname is Lin and his name is Jue. He and his protector are the masters who killed the Crocodile Dragon King by the Weishui River half a year ago."
"?"
When Lord Pan heard this, his brows were already furrowed. "Besides the master of the Crocodile Dragon King? In the past six months, there have been more than seven or eight masters in the entire Juxian Mansion, right?"
"You and I both know that those are fake." Master Fan said calmly, stroking his beard, "This one is the real one."
"Really?"
"Of course it's true." Fan Tianshi said, "Although you didn't tell us why you left your divine position and relied on a mortal, I have my own ability and can guess that it is probably related to the demon king in the Weishui River. Haha, I wanted to get rid of the demon king for you half a year ago because we lived together, but I didn't expect someone to get rid of it first... Alas, if you count it this way, the two people in the West Courtyard are your real benefactors."
"Take a look and then talk!"
But Mr. Pan didn't believe it and just walked forward.
Master Fan was secretly stunned——
I thought this guy had a bad temper and had a conflict with Lin Daoyou without knowing it, so I reminded him, but I didn't expect him to not listen. I'd better not make things worse.
So the middle-aged Taoist priest immediately walked along the corridor.
When he walked out of the corridor, the old servant appeared at the right time and held a yellow paper umbrella for him to shield him from the rain.
All the way to the west courtyard gate.
I saw a white fox standing under a crabapple tree. The crabapple tree was bare in winter and could not shelter from the rain. So the fox stood in the yard in the rain, looking up and staring at the tree trunk intently.
"You fox! You finally showed up..."
Mr. Pan simply thought it was the white fox that had always lived in the yard and stepped in.
But after just one step, he stopped.
The air was damp and chilly, with a scent of earth in the vapor, but it also brought some other scent to him.
That is……
The taste of the Alligator King!
Ding ding ding!
Mr. Pan was horrified and took several steps back, leaving the yard. He even almost bumped into Master Fan who was coming towards him with an umbrella. He just looked at the yard in shock.
The white fox that was enjoying the rain in the yard also heard the noise and turned its head. Its eyes were clear with curiosity as it looked at them.
With a creak, a door behind him opened.
A Taoist priest, wearing an old and whitened Taoist robe, also looked at the visitor through the rain of pearls that fell like a curtain in the sky.
Both sides soon found out.
The other party is really a master besides the Alligator Dragon King;
The other party is really the Wei River God.
(End of this chapter)
