female catcher

Chapter 193
Although Buddhism is promoted and Taoism is promoted today, the original Pingshan Mountain does not seem to have been affected in any way. The official road is full of vehicles and horses, and there are still many people who go to Xianyu Temple, either to ask for fortune, or to visit incense.

Xia Chu only heard about Yuan Pingshan from other people's mouths, Fang Yi came here to ask questions, Liu Huaishi came here to pay homage, and the fat Taoist priest Jiang Xiyuan mentioned, the legendary son buried at the foot of the mountain, far and near It's all stories that made her always curious about this place.

After walking out of the city for a while, I saw Yuanping Mountain.The mountain is not high, but it rises abruptly in the middle of a plain and cuts the horizon, which is a bit majestic. There is an illusion that you can touch the sky with your toes.The stone steps wind up from the foot of the mountain, and the Taoist temple with blue bricks and gray tiles can be seen faintly on the mountain. The clouds move with the breeze, and the shadows under the cage, the lights and shadows flicker, adding to the mystery.

"The fat Taoist priest is still in the temple now?" Xia Chu asked Jiang Xiyuan as he lifted the curtains of the car and watched from a distance.

"It's still there now, and I will go back to Jincheng with Princess Anyuan and the others next month." Jiang Xiyuan glanced at her lightly, "I told you the story of Princess Anyuan, do you remember?"

"Of course I remember." Xia Chu nodded and smiled.After returning from Guanyang City that time, Jiang Xiyuan told her the story of the last years of the previous dynasty. At that time, she was fascinated by it, and felt like a legend from afar. "Is Princess Anyuan really the emperor's twin sister?"

Jiang Xiyuan smiled lightly, "The emperor has never said it explicitly, but Princess Anyuan looks a lot like the emperor, the same age and a similar birthday, even if they are not, it is considered a rare fate."

"That must be it." Xia Chu said firmly, "I think the emperor must have confirmed it, but it's hard to say clearly, after all, it involves his own mother."

"You are confused about some things, but you can understand some things." Jiang Xiyuan said with a smile, "Do you know the emperor?"

"How can I know the emperor, and I haven't seen him before." Xia Chu waved his hand, thought for a while and said: "However, judging from the matter of seizing the throne, today's majesty is really a person who can bear it. Hitting Qicun directly is ruthless enough. But judging from the attitude towards Princess Anyuan, it seems to be quite affectionate. It's quite complicated, and she really doesn't look so young."

Jiang Xiyuan nodded silently.

"I guess, the emperor should be tall, with sword eyebrows and eagle eyes, he doesn't like to talk or laugh, maybe he's a little gloomy." Xia Chu smacked his chin while thinking, and asked Jiang Xiyuan for proof: "You're right. ?"

"That's not right." Jiang Xiyuan played with the teacup in his hand with downcast eyes, and said softly, "The emperor is a little shorter than me, with a gentle and handsome appearance. When I was young, concubines often said that he was as beautiful as a girl." He smiled, "When he was a child, he also liked to talk and laugh, and he had a very lively temperament. It was just the environment, and the older he got, the more he began to hide himself. It's not gloomy."

Unexpectedly, the image of Mr. Huang popped up in Xia Chu's mind, his heart tightened, he panicked inexplicably, a thought flashed by, and then he smiled sadly and shook it off.

The carriage stopped slowly at the foot of Yuanping Mountain, but Jiang Xiyuan didn't get up immediately, he was silent for a while before saying: "We're here, get out of the car."

Many carriages parked at the foot of Yuanping Mountain, men and women, either in groups or alone.Some looked distressed, and they came to ask about difficult things, and some looked shy, probably to ask about marriage.Xia Chu took a rough look, and finally set his eyes on Jiang Xiyuan, but he couldn't tell the calmness of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.

After walking up the stone steps for a few steps, Xia Chu turned around and said to Jiang Xiyuan, "Master, do you really want to sign the divination? I don't think...it's necessary."

Jiang Xiyuan looked up at her with deep eyes, and slightly bent the corners of his lips for a while, and asked her, "Why?"

"I don't think you are a very ambitious person, my lord." Xia Chu said slowly, and quietly averted his gaze from his gaze, "Is it the third-rank Jing Zhaoyin or the fifth-rank Guozijian doctor, my lord? A person who cares so much. Are you really here to ask about your future?"

Jiang Xiyuan smiled, and walked up the stairs to her side, "I really don't care about the third-rank and fifth-rank, but I am ambitious. I am not asking about the future, but I am also asking about the future."

Xia Chu had been thinking a lot about what he said, but now he was confused by what he said, and looked at him with blinking eyes, not knowing how to continue.

Jiang Xiyuan looked sideways at Xia Chu, watching with a little focus, and sighed for a moment: "If you want to hear, I will tell you." After speaking, he walked up the steps up the mountain without looking back: "I'm afraid you In no mood."

"I think."

"Really?" Jiang Xiyuan didn't say any more, just said: "After coming down from Yuanping Mountain, if you still want to listen, you will have plenty of time to talk." He didn't linger any longer, and walked up the mountain lightly.

The two went up the mountain, walked into the mountain gate, and walked through the front hall. Jiang Xiyuan talked to her all the way about the Immortal Feather Temple, the 600-year-old Taoist temple, every eaves and tiles seemed to hide stories, clinging to legends, Xia Chu laughed while listening, He said: "I don't think the grass in the Immortal Feather Temple can be picked casually. Maybe it's the fairy grass that the fairy knocked on the melons and fruits and threw it down in the mortal world."

Jiang Xiyuan also smiled, bent down and picked a wild flower from the nearby grass and handed it to her, "Immortal Grass." Xia Chu took it and held the flower stem and turned it around.

She lightly folded her palms, held Hua Xu in her hand and turned around, "Didn't your lord want to find the Taoist priest for divination? Let's go, I also want to see what the Taoist priest looks like."

"Chu Xia..." Jiang Xiyuan stopped her from behind, and when she turned around, he was silent for a while and said, "It's nothing, let's go."

Walking through the front hall and turning to the door of the middle courtyard, Xia Chu saw a huge rock in the courtyard at a glance, and couldn't help exclaiming: "What a strange rock!"

"That's the Flying Immortal Stone." Jiang Xiyuan took a look after him, his eyes paused slightly, "The one next to him...is the Priest Xuan."

Xia Chu looked over as he pointed, and saw a Taoist priest with a round body and face. The bun on the top of his head was set off by the big face, like a cherry on a big cake, and he was very happy.Wearing a rust-red Taoist robe with wide black edges, he was happily talking to a man and a woman, with a slightly flattering expression.

"No wonder you think he's a liar." Xia Chu covered his mouth and smiled softly, "It's really similar."

Jiang Xiyuan didn't comment, looked in the direction of Taoist Xuan, and suddenly asked: "Xia Chu, are you still thinking about Mr. Huang?"

Xia Chu didn't know why he suddenly brought up Mr. Huang again. He had a faint feeling that there was something wrong, but she couldn't figure out what the problem was, so she thought for a while and said, "My lord, I remember that you didn't like me talking about Mr. Huang in the past." Young Master, why did you mention this for the second time today, is there something wrong?"

"Yes." Jiang Xiyuan nodded.

"About Mr. Huang?" Xia Chu thought for a while, "Does your lord know who he is?"

Jiang Xiyuan looked in the direction of Taoist Xuan, and nodded slightly, "I know who he is now."

Xia Chu's heart skipped a beat, and he blurted out, "Who is it?"

Jiang Xiyuan answered irrelevantly and said, "Follow me to see Taoist Xuan, but don't make a sound no matter what you see for a while, okay?"

Xia Chu smiled inexplicably, panicked at what he said, and inevitably started thinking wildly.Could it be that Mr. Huang is a ghost, a demon or a fairy?

But he had appeared in broad daylight, and he had held his hand, leaned on his shoulder, and felt his breath, so it shouldn't be so weird.

"My lord, can you speak directly? This...is scary."

"It's quite scary." Jiang Xiyuan said: "I'm afraid you won't believe me, so I think it might be better for you to see it with your own eyes."

Hearing this, Xia Chu became more and more uneasy, and fell half a step behind Jiang Xiyuan, and followed him towards Feixianshi.When he was ten feet away, Xia Chu heard the voice of the Taoist priest, and said with a little excitement: "If I can take over the Immortal Feather Temple, I will not go back to Jincheng."

"What about Qingliang Temple?" asked the man standing next to him.

"The Qingliang temple has become very famous because of me, and those who want to be a Taoist priest there may be overwhelmed, so don't worry." Xuan Taoist waggled his fat fingers, "Don't worry at all."

"You're really not humble." The man laughed.

Xia Chu felt that the man's voice sounded familiar, but couldn't remember where she heard it. She poked her head around and saw only the back, but the appearance of the Taoist priest was clearer, with a greasy face, similar to the fairy wind. The four characters of Daogu have nothing to do with each other.

"Xuan Daoist." Jiang Xiyuan cupped his hands and greeted him.Daoist Xuan stopped talking and looked this way on tiptoe, ran over with two small steps, and raised his eyebrows when he approached, even his beard trembled, "My lord is really here."

Xia Chu looked at the Taoist priest in front of him, and felt that his eyes were not big enough to accommodate such a large figure.She smiled politely at him, and also cupped her hands.

Xuan Daochang's small eyes turned around, looked Xia Chu up and down, chuckled, pulled Jiang Xiyuan's sleeve and pulled him aside, and lowered his voice, "This girl is interesting."

Jiang Xiyuan hummed softly with a high-pitched voice, "Did the Taoist see it?"

"Hey! You look down on people too much. How can I say that I am also the first head of Jingguo." Xuan Daochang stroked his beard and smiled mischievously, "I heard that there is a young Xia Butou in the government office, but it turns out that the woman is not allowed to let her go." My man! Does anyone else know? It’s a good story to tell, Mr. Jiang employs people that don’t stick to one pattern, it’s really not sticking to one pattern!”

Jiang Xiyuan smiled wryly, took out a bank note and pressed it on his chest, "It's fine for the Taoist priest to know."

Xuan Daochang glanced at the bank note, put it away with a smile, "I don't even know."

At the beginning of Xia, I didn't know what Taoist Xuan and Jiang Xiyuan were muttering. Standing alone was a little awkward, so I turned back to look at the man who was talking to Taoist Xuan just now. It happened that the man also turned his head. A little surprised, he took a step forward and smiled, "Xia Butou, I never thought we'd meet again here, are you all right?"

"It's Dong Lin's family!" Xia Chu also laughed, and gave him a small bow, "I heard your voice just now and thought it was familiar, but I didn't remember it for a while."

At this time, the woman next to Lin Yu also turned around, looked at Xia Chu intently, her voice was as clear as a bird's voice, and she said with a smile: "So this is Xia Tutou."

(End of this chapter)