Saint Immortal Way

() Cao Daoyuan seriously asked Lu Yang about his wishes, because it is not a trivial matter to be a deacon in Bailongtan.

"Of course!" Although Lu Yang knew nothing about the so-called White Dragon Pool, he still chose to believe in Princess Shouyang, because Princess Shouyang would not harm him for no reason.

"That is the forbidden area of ​​the academy, why do you want to go there?" Cao Daoyuan pondered for a while, Fang said.

"Princess Shouyang mentioned it once!" Lu Yang shrugged and spread his hands.

Cao Daoyuan didn't speak, just paced back and forth for a few steps, and then turned around and said, "Okay, since Princess Shouyang thinks the same way, it's not a big deal to go to Bailongtan to be a deacon. The master, I, the master, can still do it." made!"

Huang Zongxi frowned, but he still gave Lu Yang a wink. Lu Yang understood, and quickly saluted with a smile on his face: "Thank you, Master!"

Cao Daoyuan laughed helplessly: "You don't need to thank me. This academy reminds you once again that Bailongtan is a forbidden area of ​​the academy, and idlers are not allowed to enter or leave. I don't know where you go is a blessing or a curse. Well, since you want to go, then Be as careful as possible, because it is a dangerous place, and you will lose your life!" Cao Daoyuan said in the end that he was serious, and his expression was definitely not a joke.

"Will you lose your life?" Lu Yang's eyes widened, not knowing that there was such a dangerous place in the academy, his lips moved, but in the end he didn't say anything about changing the place.

Walking out of the Zhenghe Building, Lu Yang didn't say a word, Huang Zongxi also hesitated to speak, and finally reached the other residence and entered the study, Huang Zongxi said: "Chunyang, I never thought that you would propose to do a job in a place like Bailongtan !"

Lu Yang said seriously: "Teacher, is there anything inappropriate?"

"Of course it's very wrong!" Huang Zongxi shook his head, "You probably don't know what's wrong with Bailongtan in this hospital?" Lu Yang shook his head, very puzzled.

Huang Zongxi sighed: "Chunyang, I'm not talking about you for my teacher. Since you don't know where it is, you rashly brought it up there. I don't know if you are stupid or smart!"

"Teacher, please advise me!" Lu Yang stood up and bowed respectfully.

Huang Zongxi waved his hand, motioned Lu Yang to sit down, and said: "Before the establishment of this institute, there was a big waterfall in the upper reaches of Nanming Lake. Below the waterfall was an ancient deep pool. In the South China Sea, you can reach the East China Sea in the east, and the Great Wilderness west of Dadong Mountain in the west. However, this cold pool is occupied by an old blue dragon. At the beginning, the Taidao sage took a fancy to this place and wanted to establish an academy here, so he had to fight with this cold pool. The old dragon made a rule that every year the academy must provide the old dragon with [-] cows as blood food, so that the academy can be established smoothly!"

"Two thousand cows a year, isn't that difficult?" Lu Yang was surprised, this condition is not a problem at all in the eyes of the current dynasty.Although the dynasty has the habit of not killing cattle, the Academy can completely build a cattle farm to meet the requirements of a dragon.

Huang Zongxi nodded: "It is indeed not difficult to achieve [-] head of cattle a year, but the headache is that the old dragon wants to increase the blood food to [-] head of cattle this year!"

Lu Yang was stunned, and smiled: "Three thousand cows? Hehe, originally two thousand cows a year, with the academy's financial resources, it's not too much, but this old dragon is too interesting, so two thousand cows a year, the academy It's too bad!"

"That's the reason. It's not a year, nor a decade. This situation has lasted for more than four hundred years. It is also a burden for the academy. This old dragon is not satisfied. This year, we will add another thousand. The academy refused at the beginning. I didn’t expect the old dragon to swallow several deacons who gave him cows. The Confucian teachers went to theory, but they were almost swallowed by it. There was no choice but to send the [-] cows before the end of the year. Qi, you said that to be a deacon means to deliver blood food to it, and it adds a lot of danger for nothing, and if you are not careful, you will be killed, so, Chunyang, why are you doing this?" Huang Zongxi said As he said that, his face became helpless.

Lu Yang's eyes widened, how did he know that Bailongtan was in this situation?

"I was beaten to death by His Highness!" Lu Yang almost vomited blood!

"Teacher, what should I do? When His Highness mentioned it a few days ago, he thought it was a good job, but he didn't expect... What is His Highness Princess doing?" Lu Yang smiled wryly.

Huang Zongxi thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "His Royal Highness is probably spreading rumors, thinking that after serving the old dragon, he can pull out a dragon's whiskers anyway? It's not like this happened to Yulong Debao before... Anyway, disaster Fu always depends on each other, let's see the good fortune!"

It is said that since Lu Yang accepted the appointment in the courtyard, he went to the supervisor in the early morning of the next day, received the deacon's jade card, and a servant took Lu Yang to the direction of Bailongtan.

Bailongtan is on the upper reaches of the Xiaoshui River, riding a horse for several miles along a remote path, and came to a slope with fertile water and grass, surrounded by enclosures for grazing cattle. At this time, in the cattle farm, three to four thousand cattle were gnawing on the slope. grass.

The little servant bowed and said: "Mr. Lu, I will send it here. Walk along the road for half a stick of incense, and you will be Bailongtan, which is a forbidden area. You have to pull two hundred and five cattle in the cattle farm first." , so we can go to the forbidden area, otherwise the old dragon will be annoyed, once it is annoyed, the consequences will be very serious..."

Lu Yang returned the gift, and said with a smile: "Thank you, little brother, for reminding me, Lu Yang knows!"

After seeing off the boy, Lu Yang walked into the cattle farm. On one side of the slope, there was a small village with dozens of families scattered here and there. This is the cattle farm.

Since the establishment of the academy, there has been this cattle village. At first there were only a few households, and later it developed. Now it has become a small village of [-] to [-] households, relying on cattle raising for survival.

There is a wooden house under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village. An old man is sitting on the threshold, smoking a dry cigarette with a sad face.When he saw Lu Yang approaching, he immediately stood up, with a smile on his face, and walked up to him in three steps at a time: "Confucian scholar, you are the new deacon, in charge of Bailongtan?"

"I am, the old man is..."

"Old man is the village head of Niuzhuang, called Niu Buer!" The old man smiled brightly.

"Very good, since I'm the village chief, I've found the right person. This is my jade token, please check it!" Lu Yang took out the jade token and handed it over. Niu Buer took it over, glanced at it, and nodded. Handed it back and said happily: "That's right, so you are the new Deacon Lu, please come to the house!"

Lu Yang nodded, walked into the wooden house and sat down. Niu Buer smiled and brought tea to Lu Yang very enthusiastically.

"Is this wooden house a place for the deacon to rest?" Lu Yang glanced at the wooden house, which was quite simple and barely sheltered from the rain.

"Yes, Deacon Lu, this old man is waiting for the new deacon to come. If the academy doesn't arrange for the new deacon to come, it will be difficult to explain to the forbidden area!"

"Wait for me to do, where is the former deacon?" Lu Yang was surprised.

"Oh, Deacon Lu, you don't know. There has been no deacon in this Niuzhuang for more than two months. In the past two months, the old man drove the cattle to the forbidden area, trembling all the way. I don't know how much life was lost. Deacon Lu came It's fine, the old man doesn't need to step in and do it for me!"

"..." Lu Yang had nothing to say. The reason Niu Buer greeted him so enthusiastically was because he was too afraid of driving the cattle to the forbidden area, so he hoped that the new deacon would come and he would be relieved.

"Forget it!" The deacon is doing this job, no wonder the people in Niuzhuang, the people in Niuzhuang only need to be responsible for raising the cattle.

Lu Yan was also polite, took a sip of tea, and said directly: "Village Chief, it's not too late, why don't we go and see the cow now?"

Niu Buer rubbed his hands together, and said joyfully, "Okay, Deacon Lu is really capable, let's go, this old man will show you up the mountain!" Niu Buer chuckled, and led Lu Yang up the hillside, only to see a herd of yellow cattle on the hillside. Grazing grass leisurely.

Lu Yang pointed and shouted: "The 250 fattest ones, come here!"

When Lu Yang yelled, Niu Buer smiled: "Deacon Lu, those Niu Linghui are not open, how could they understand our words, or I will let people choose carefully, and the fattest and fattest ones will be selected." Driven out?"

"No need, Village Chief Niu, let's see, aren't they coming out?" Lu Yang smiled and pointed.When Niu Buer looked at it, he was stunned. It turned out that hundreds of the fattest and fattest cattle came out of the herd.

Niu Buer's eyes widened, he quickly rubbed it vigorously, and found that he was not mistaken, it was indeed the scalpers who came over by themselves, silently counted, it was indeed 250, not too many, not too many.

"I'm convinced!" Niu Buer gave a thumbs up and sighed: "As expected of a scholar in the academy, this scalper actually understood Deacon Lu's words. I have lived my whole life, and I have never seen such a miracle!"

"It's not a miracle, but it's just a small trick, not worth mentioning!" Lu Yang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Well, since the cow has come out, let's go to the forbidden area today!"

"Let the old lead the way?" Niu Buer said immediately, doing his part.

"Alright, it's the first time Lu Yang came here, and he still doesn't know the way, so please let the village chief show you around!" Lu Yang saluted.

"Don't dare, I dare not accept this gift!" Niu Buer was a little flustered. Lu Yang is a dignified scholar, and he is just the head of Niu Village, so he can't accept such a gift.

"Da Niu, Er Niu, San Niu, Si Niu...Come here!" Niu Buer yelled at the woods next to him, and seven or eight teenagers trotted out of the woods, each of them wearing rough clothes. The fur coat is as strong as a calf.

Lu Yang had already noticed that they were all lighting a fire in the woods to keep warm just now, and they didn't come out in a panic until Niu Buer yelled.

"Little bastard, I'm being lazy again, come over and help Deacon Lu drive the cow to the forbidden area!" Niu Buer scolded with a smile.The teenagers suddenly looked a little embarrassed, asking them to drive the cattle to the forbidden area?Even if they were given ten leopard guts, they wouldn't dare.

"They're all cowards, so what are they afraid of when they rush out of the forbidden area?" Niu Buer yelled angrily.

"Okay... okay!" Soon, four teenagers ran over and began to drive around the 250 cows. The leader of the teenagers bowed to Lu Yang apologetically, "Deacon Lu, it's not that I'm waiting for you!" I'm afraid of getting into trouble, but I really... Please don't blame Deacon Lu!"

Lu Yang waved his hands and laughed loudly: "It's okay, it's not up to you to go to the forbidden area, it's already very good that you can help me get out of the forbidden area!"

The four teenagers breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Yang smiled slightly, and shouted at the cows: "Let's all follow the path, don't be lazy!"

The cattle seemed to understand, and some moo mooed, and the herd of cattle walked neatly along the path without being chased. Only then did he realize that Lu Yang possessed the incomparably mysterious magic of the holy way, able to drive scalpers.

For a moment, the teenagers looked at Lu Yang with a hint of awe.

……