Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 469: Meeting the Taoist Temple (Please subscribe and vote monthly)
However, these words are a bit flattering. It is not a joke to say that the officers and soldiers are full of righteousness.

If those who have been on the battlefield have evil spirits on their bodies, it is no problem. Today's officers and soldiers, especially those who are not guarding the border counties, have generally never seen blood, and they are not likely to be as disciplined as the soldiers of later generations. That is very difficult. Arrogant, he wants to have everything he needs to eat and take cards.

Of course Chou Chou and Huang Jin couldn't speak. They heard it yesterday, and they helped solve the problem. They could only pretend to be surprised and echo each other's words.

The group of people just kept going back and forth, and Mrs. Hu would also exchange a few words from time to time, and the conversation was quite lively.

Soon they arrived at the South City Gate. They had to leave the city the same way they came and walk back to the east-west road.

There were a lot of people leaving the city in the morning, especially since there was an accident last night, and the investigation was stricter than before. Not only did they have to look inside the carriage, but they also had to open the trunks under and behind the carriage, so it took more time.

I don't know if the county magistrate's wife did something to make it happen, but it is destined to disappoint the other party, but the tiger cannot be found in their space.

It took nearly an hour to successfully leave the city. There were many vehicles and pedestrians on the road outside, most of them talking about what happened last night.

So Qingyan and the others listened to several versions of the rumor. There was a family that was digging for a house. When digging the foundation, a snake nest was dug. The little snake in the family was shoveled to death. Unexpectedly, the little snake's parents were like this. The snake king next to him, and then they brought their own snakes to take revenge.

That's why there was a scene of snakes chasing those people, and those people were the people who helped the family build the house, and they were all relatives and friends of the neighbors.

What else is there? That snake was originally a great immortal worshiped by a family. Because the other party suddenly stopped enshrining it, the great immortal became angry and brought his snake sons and grandsons to warn him.

Well, the person who said this sounded like he had a northern accent, so he must be from the north. Obviously he didn’t know that the south didn’t enshrine any great immortals, so he just followed his own way of thinking.

There is another one that is even more outrageous. It is said that the wife of a certain family has a very strange appearance. She has a pointed chin, and her eyes often look like she wants to eat people. Her waist is as thin as a willow branch, and she walks like a willow branch. Come and shake it, it’s determined that the snake demon has changed!
Some time ago, so-and-so took a concubine, which angered the snake demon lady, so she came with her kin to show him off.

As for those people who were scared out at the same time, they were affected, so they were unlucky.

Well, each one is more outrageous than the other.

Also, who would have thought that this was done by the county magistrate's wife. The other party just wanted to make the matter bigger so that they could conduct a search in the city.

However, their goal was indeed achieved. Although there was no search last night, everyone who left the city today was searched one by one.

If you really want to steal a tiger that doesn't have room, you have to be found out. After all, the tiger is quite big and cannot be hidden easily. As long as you leave, it will be easily exposed. If you don't leave, she will be exposed sooner or later if she stays in the city. can be found.

This is the other party's purpose.

Qingyan and others listened to the made-up story for a while, and finally couldn't help but discuss it over the phone.

To be honest, if they didn't know the truth and listened to what these people said, they might have believed it.

I have to say that the imagination of ancient people is not small. Although they have not seen much of the world, they still have a lot of ideas for making up stories. Just like many fairy tales, ghost stories, etc., not all ancient people It’s left to be passed on.

Of course, for Qingyan and the others, those may not be stories, but real records. After all, they encountered a lot of monsters and monsters. These really exist. As for whether others believe it or not, I don’t know.

Because there were so many people on the road, we couldn't increase our speed. It was only three or four miles away, and it took us more than half an hour to get onto the main road.

After getting onto the main road, they turned directly to the left and headed east.

This road is sloping, and it does go to the northeast. It is okay to go around the previous mountain, but if you want to go due east, you have to go around an slanted triangle. It is not very far, at most. Just go around for a dozen or twenty miles more, and you can continue to return to the previous official road.

After walking less than five miles, we came to another section of mountain road. Because the road was slanted, it was longer than the previous official road to the mountain side, almost two or three miles long.

This mountain is not the same as the one the official road passed before. There is a deep chasm in the middle that separates it from the other side, so it is divided into two mountains. In fact, the mountains are still connected.

There are actually no tigers in this mountain. They are all relatively docile animals. The most dangerous ones are probably wild boars.

This mountain road is not long, only less than five miles. Because there are many people walking together, and it is broad daylight, even if there are rumors of tigers in the mountains, no one is afraid.

Of course, other people from the county may not know this yet.

Along the way, there were the sounds of many people chatting, mixed with the clatter of horse hooves and the clatter of wheels. Many birds in the forest were startled and flew from the trees into the air.

Again, because there are many people and cars traveling together, the speed cannot be increased. In addition, although this road is a main road, it is still far behind the official road.

It is wide enough, but the road surface is really uneven, with a lot of potholes and even a lot of gravel. The carriage will run over and bump around from time to time. Sitting in the carriage is really not a good choice. It's not as comfortable as walking outside.

It was already noon when we came out of the mountain road. The south is not like the north. Because the days are short and the nights are long, and the food crops are not so rich, most people eat two meals. Here, they usually eat three meals a day. Even because of the developed business, many restaurants are open at night, so a late night snack is also included.

At this time, as long as you have some spare money on hand, you can still live a good life. It's not like those dynasties where the royal family or the powerful have very strict control and have many rules. This won't work, and that won't work either. The common people are tightly controlled. Even clothing and food are controlled, and there is no sense of happiness at all. They are just working tools for the rich and powerful.

They walked forward for a while until they reached a relatively flat area. There was wasteland on both sides, which was level with the road and could drive a carriage into it.

After breakfast in the morning, they bought some dry food to take with them, so they planned to stop here to heat it up.

The carriage was driven to the open space next to it. Not only them, but other carriages and pedestrians pushing carts or carrying burdens all chose to rest in this open space.

And looking at the traces on the open space, it seems that many people have rested here before. The ground has been run over by cars and people have walked on it a lot, and there is even less grass. The open space is very large, so even if people on the road rest here, it can still be fully accommodated.

Everyone found their own place, and the family gathered together to make a fire. After all, the weather was still a bit cold now, so they needed to heat dry food or boil some hot water to drink.

Those who walked alone would find a place to sit by themselves. Some would light a fire to heat up the dry food, while others who were too lazy to start a fire would just eat it.

Occasionally, I would strike up a conversation with someone I didn't know next to me. After all, we were traveling on the same road, and we would get to know each other as we talked.

Now the topic of everyone's chat has changed. After all, it is boring to talk about a topic too much. Now everyone is talking about the latest things that happened on this road.

Qingyan and the others were also forced to listen, especially what happened in the first town not far ahead. Many of these people knew about it.

The town is called Qushui Town. When we are about to enter the town, there is a small Taoist temple on the roadside with only one courtyard. Last winter, for some reason, the Taoist temple suddenly collapsed. The entire hall sank into the ground, revealing an underground stone chamber below. .

The mayor of Qushui Town organized people to check and found that the stone chamber below was much larger than the Taoist temple above. However, there was nothing in it, only some rotten clothing and supplies and some aging tables, chairs and benches.

Later, everyone speculated what the underground stone chamber was used for. Some said that it was used by the wealthy squire who donated money to build the Taoist temple to hide gold and silver. However, before he could hide it in time, he was ruined by the prodigal son of the family, so it was Empty.

Some people also say that it was used by Taoist priests to avoid bandits. A hundred years ago, bandits were rampant here. Not only the people in villages and towns, but also those in these temples and Taoist temples were not spared.

After all, some temples and Taoist temples have a lot of incense money, so it is normal to build a basement like this for hiding. There are a lot of clothes and daily necessities in it, so it must have been lived in.

It was not until later that the mayor found a book recording the local history that he discovered that this Taoist temple was originally built by Li Yuanwai, a once famous local, for his son who wanted to become a monk.

Mr. Li didn't want his son to practice Taoism, but he couldn't get his son to do it, so he had to do the next best thing and not let him go too far away from home and never see him again.

In fact, he was afraid that his son would be in danger when he went out for a walk, so he simply spent his own money to build a Taoist temple here for his son to practice.

Of course, just having a Taoist temple is not enough. His son cannot fumble and practice on his own. This needs someone to guide him.

This Taoist temple is also used to attract other Taoist priests. After all, many Taoist priests will go down the mountain and travel around. When they pass by or arrive at a place, most of them will visit the local Taoist temple and stay overnight there.

With Taoist temples, as long as you wait patiently, you can always wait for a traveling Taoist priest.

Unexpectedly, the other party was very lucky. In the second year after the Taoist temple was built, a Taoist priest came. The Taoist was a casual cultivator. He chose the Taoist name by himself, which is called Sui Yuan. He relied on a book of exercises that he accidentally obtained. Those who practice, it is said that their cultivation level is not low.

Not to mention calling wind and rain, turning stones into gold, etc., at least the skills of fortune-telling and fortune-telling are pretty good.

Just by helping people read Feng Shui, many people will treat him as a guest, not to mention that he can catch ghosts, exorcise evil spirits, and even cure diseases and save people.

It just so happened that the other party had no sect connection, so after Li Yuanwai spent a lot of money to change the location of his ancestral tomb, he took advantage of the opportunity to keep the other party in this Taoist temple as the temple master and teach his son how to practice.

After asking about the other party's wishes, he allowed his son to become a disciple and became the personal disciple of Suiyuan Taoist.

The other party readily agreed and stayed here. The name of this Taoist temple was also changed to Fengyuan Temple by the Suiyuan Taoist.

It contains the word "Yuan" in his Taoist title, and also means that the meeting between their master and disciple is fate.

However, Fengyuan Temple has indeed improved after having a temple owner. It is no longer a place where the Li family's son stays alone. Many people come to seek medical advice and divination, as well as to catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits.

Because of its good sight, its reputation gradually spread far and wide. Not only the town and nearby villages, but also people from the county town came here to see it.

Later, Taoist Suiyuan passed away, and his disciple Taoist Mingxin, the son of the squire, became the master of the temple.

Mingxin is dedicated to cultivating Taoism, but his talent is limited and he cannot be as proficient in everything as his master. What he is best at is medical skills, which may be related to his personality and concentrated study. It is almost as good as his master's medical skills.

As for exorcising evil spirits and eliminating ghosts, they all rely on the talismans left by his master. If there is anyone who can read Feng Shui, it is his disciples who do it.

Although he is said to be his disciple, he was actually taught by his master, Taoist Sui Yuan. As a disciple, he is not good at medical skills, but he is somewhat talented in these areas, so his younger brother is the one who comes forward to do these things, while he continues to help others. Some difficult and complicated diseases and so on.

Fortunately, there are many people coming to the Taoist temple. After all, who doesn't have headaches and fever? There are even more people seeing doctors here than in nearby medical clinics.

One is that his charges here are not as expensive as medical clinics, unless very expensive medicinal materials are needed, but he does not sell medicinal materials here. Generally, as long as the medicine can be collected from the nearby mountains or the kind of herbs that can be grown, It's free of charge.

They are all like incense money. It looks like they are given to you. A few copper coins will do, or a silver ingot if you are rich. If it is a disease that requires expensive medicinal materials, you can only go to a medical center or drug store to catch it. He will Just write the prescription.

After his death, his disciples did not want to settle in a small Taoist temple in this small place, so they left this place to travel.

Since then, the Feng Yuan Taoist Temple has declined. After that, even the young Taoist priests inside left, and it was completely abandoned.

Except for some passers-by who don't have money to stay in an inn and occasionally go in to spend the night, there is usually no one inside.

As a result, because no one took care of it for a long time, it fell into disrepair and collapsed sooner or later.

However, there is a difference between collapse and ground subsidence. I didn't expect that a basement would be exposed. I don't know whether the first-generation temple owner built it later, or whether Li Yuanwai had already built the basement below when he first built the Taoist temple.