"Learning the rules of heaven should start from childhood." Fang Jian thought to himself as he looked at Mei Xianzhang, who could already write his own name after six or seven days of instruction.
"Zhang'er." Fang Jian stepped forward, sat down next to Mei Xianzhang and called.
Mei Xianzhang raised his head, looked at Fang Jian with a pair of bright eyes and asked, "Huh?"
Fang Jian said: "Let me buy you some brushes and some writing paper."
Mei Xianzhang asked: "Is it expensive?"
Fang Jian said: "It shouldn't be expensive."
Mei Xianzhang asked again: "Dad, do you have a lot of money?"
Fang Jian smiled and said, "Why do you ask this?"
Mei Xianzhang said: "I can practice writing with charcoal. If you have more money, buy it. If you don't have much, keep it."
"What are you keeping for?" Fang Jian asked.
Mei Xianzhang said: "Keep it until Shao Leizi continues to rely on your money, and maybe there are people from the Black Dragon Gang."
"Is the Black Dragon Gang very powerful?" Fang Jian asked.
Mei Xianzhang said: "At least the county magistrate of Bailu County dares not take care of them."
"Don't be afraid." Fang Jian pointed to his back and said, "Look what's on my back?"
Mei Xianzhang took a look and said, "It's bamboo."
"..." Fang Jian said a little speechlessly: "Why should I carry a bamboo on my back?"
"How do I know why you are carrying a piece of bamboo on your back, dad?" Mei Xianzhang said, "Dad, I am practicing calligraphy."
Fang Jian said: "Do you think I disturbed your calligraphy practice?"
"I don't mind, it's just that you really disturbed my calligraphy practice." Mei Xianzhang said.
"Oh, let me go then." Fang Jian stood up and left.
But Mei Xianzhang quickly stretched out his little hand to grab Fang Jian, then raised his head and said, "Since I've disturbed you, let's chat for a while!"
Fang Jian smiled slightly, sat back down, then stretched out his right hand to form a sword finger in front of Mei Xianzhang's eyes, "Watch."
After saying that, Fang Jian raised his sword finger slightly, and in an instant there was only a "choking" sound. The Taiyi Golden Light Sword flew out from the green bamboo scabbard in an instant, turning into a golden light that circled twice in the room, and then stabilized Di Fei landed in front of Fang Jian.
Mei Xianzhang's eyes widened immediately, stars twinkling in her bright eyes. She threw the charcoal in her hand and reached out to grab the Taiyi Golden Light Sword.
With Fang Jian in front of him, the Taiyi Golden Light Sword would naturally not harm Mei Xianzhang.
'Pa' Mei Xianzhang's chubby little hand grabbed the hilt of the sword directly, and then she pulled hard, but the Taiyi Golden Light Sword did not move at all.
Mei Xianzhang frowned and put his other hand up, but he still couldn't pull the Taiyi Golden Light Sword.
Fang Jian laughed and watched as Mei Xianzhang's face turned red from holding it in so hard. Unexpectedly, Mei Xianzhang suddenly let go of his hands, stood up, grabbed the bench under him, and hit the bench with a bang. On top of the Yijin lightsaber.
'Crash'
The rotten bench that had been repaired many times was directly smashed into pieces. At the same time, the wooden slag of the bench was scattered by the power of Taiyi's golden lightsaber. It hit Mei Xianzhang several times, All of a sudden, several bloody holes were made in Mei Xianzhang's body.
Fang Jian was startled, quickly put away the Taiyi Golden Light Sword, and then stepped forward to hold Mei Xianzhang in his arms to check her injuries.
Mei Xianzhang had a piece of sawdust nailed into her left and right cheeks. Two gashes were ripped open on her baby-fat face and blood flowed profusely. There were also several blood holes on her upper body, which were constantly bleeding out. Bleeding.
Fang Jian quickly took out a healing elixir and fed it to Mei Xianzhang, and then used magic power to remove the sawdust fragments from Mei Xianzhang's body.
Mei Xianzhang, on the other hand, was held motionless in Fang Jian's arms, his eyes just staring at Fang Jian who was healing him.
"You kid, why are you hitting it?" Fang Jian said while healing Mei Xianzhang.
Mei Xianzhang said: "If it doesn't come to me, I'll beat it!"
Fang Jian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This child had such a bad temper and was extremely strong-willed.
"You will have to suffer in the future." Fang Jian said. With her temper, she will definitely get injured in the future. It seems that she will have to prepare some healing elixirs.
"Does it hurt?" Fang Jian asked.
Mei Xianzhang shook his head and said, "It doesn't hurt. What is that of yours? I want to learn."
Fang Jian smiled and said: "That's Taoism and magic. If you want to learn it, it's fine. Then don't take the imperial examination. How about learning Taoism with me?"
Upon hearing this, Mei Xianzhang immediately said: "No, I have to take the exam. That is my father's last wish."
"Didn't you call me dad? I'm your dad too." Fang Jian said with a smile.
Mei Xianzhang said: "You are the master, and he is the biological father. After I fulfill my biological father's last wish first, I will listen to the master."
Fang Jian stopped talking when he heard the words, but put Mei Xianzhang down, looked at the wounds on her body that were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye due to the power of the elixir, and then said: "Continue practicing calligraphy, I will buy you paper and pen .”
Mei Xianzhang nodded, then moved a bad bench over to sit down, and then said to Fang Jian: "I want weapons too."
Fang Jian smiled and said, "Then I'll buy you a sword too?"
"I don't want a sword." Mei Xianzhang said, "I can't hold it!"
Fang Jian was stunned when he heard this and said, "Then what do you want?"
Mei Xianzhang held his chin in his hands and thought for a while, and then said: "Needle! I often see Shao Dazhu's wife at the west end of the village pricking Shao Dazhu with a needle. Shao Dazhu is very afraid of his wife, so the needle must be very powerful!"
Fang Jian laughed loudly when he heard this and said, "Do you want to learn from Dongfang Bubai?"
"Who is Dongfang Invincible?" Mei Xianzhang asked.
Fang Jian smiled and said, "I will tell you when I come back after selling the paper and pen."
...
Ao Ren came to Yulai Temple in Bailu City. Yulai Temple was said to be a 'temple', but in fact it was not a temple for monks at all.
Because under the current national policy of the Tang Dynasty to exterminate Buddhism, no monks dared to stand up openly.
In addition to Shu County, if monks and temples appeared in other places in the Tang Dynasty, they would not only have to face the Tang Dynasty government, but also Taoist monks.
Having said this, it is already clear that Yulai Temple is actually a monk temple opened by Taoist priests to receive the believers left by the monks.
The abbot of Yulai Temple is very mysterious. At least Ao Ren can't see clearly his Taoism. It is conservatively estimated that he is at the Yang Shen realm at the lowest level and may be a true immortal at the highest level. Moreover, there was no Taoist number or name. Ao Ren only knew that the 'monks' in Yulai Temple called him 'Li Laodao'.
However, out of caution, Ao Ren still attributed Li Laodao to the same cultivation level as himself.
This time Ao Ren came to Yulai Temple to find Li Laodao, mainly to ask for his help, but not to ask him to deal with Hu Meng together.
Regardless of whether Yulai Temple has a Buddhist or Taoist background, you, Ao Ren, as an immortal official in heaven, contact a Taoist or Buddhist monk to deal with another immortal official in heaven. This is not a clever move, but a crooked life.
So when Liu Qingxia proposed to unite the people from Yulai Temple to deal with Hu Meng, Ao Ren immediately refuted the proposal.
He knew deeply that no matter how he and Hu Meng didn't deal with each other, it was at best a personal grudge between two immortal officials. If they broke the news, they would just go to the Lei Department and suffer a little.
But if he did as Liu Qingxia said, then he might think he had too many dragon tendons.
However, even though he couldn't ask the people from Yulai Temple to help him, the Taoist monks had strong abilities and many spells after all, so it was still possible to ask them to help him get back the Kuixing Inkstone.
When Ao Ren came to Yulai Temple, he happened to see the monks in Yulai Temple worshiping Buddha.
Although the Yulai Temple is run by Taoists, it is small but well-equipped with monks in robes, Buddha statues, and even Buddhist teachings.
However, they neither recite Hinayana Buddhism nor Mahayana Buddhism, but recite the brand new 'Laoyan Buddhism'.
As for the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas they worshiped, it was even more outrageous. They were not the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in Buddhism at all, but some Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that Ao Ren had never heard of.
Standing outside the Main Hall, I saw Old Taoist Li wearing a cassock and a Buddhist hat on his head. He stood at the top of the hall and shouted to the monks in the hall: "Praise to the Tathagata the Great."
Yes, the Buddha worshiped in Yulai Temple is called the Dafang Tathagata Buddha. Ao Ren looked into the hall and saw a Buddha statue standing in the middle of the hall.
The Buddha statue was dressed in a qingxia jade unicorn robe. He raised his right hand to hold a gold brick, and his left hand held a treasure pestle downwards. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly open and he was glaring in front of him.
Then the chanting sounds of the monks rang out in the hall: "Praise to the Tathagata Buddha, who suppresses monsters, kills demons and bites the Taoist Buddha."
"Praising the generous Tathagata Buddha, patrolling the four directions brings a lot of nonsense."
"Praise the Buddha Tathagata the Great, you are too persistent in the rules of heaven."
"In praising the generous Tathagata Buddha, are the rules of heaven too long-winded?"
"Praise the generous Tathagata Buddha, you will never have a wife in your life."
"..."
If they were ordinary people without cultivation, they might really think that they were reciting Buddhist scriptures, because ordinary people could not understand these Sanskrit sounds at all, even though they were the Erdiaozi Sanskrit sounds of Taoist monks.
"The ceremony is over."
After the three sticks of incense were burned out, Li Laodao gave a loud shout. The monks finally stopped and stood up from the futon.
"Go and drink."
"I want to play chess, who will play chess with me?"
"Go or chess?"
"Tic-Tac-Toe."
"..."
"Is there anyone playing cards? Fairy cards."
"I'll come, I'll come."
The monks came out in groups of twos and threes from the Main Hall. When they saw Ao Ren, they bowed their hands and then left.
"Hey? Isn't this the Priest of Yanlai Lake?" Li Laodao walked out with a fly whisk in his hand, "I'm a poor monk who missed you from afar, please forgive me."
"...It really doesn't look like a monk..." Ao Ren couldn't help complaining to Li Laodao.
Li Laodao laughed and said: "It doesn't matter whether it looks like it or not. Mortal people just want to find a spiritual sustenance, a god and Buddha to bless them so that they can eliminate their sins when they worship. In fact, they don't care what they worship. Whoever it is, as long as He works.”
After finishing speaking, Li Laodao said to Ao Ren: "Shui Priest, please come into the hall and sit down."
Ao Ren bowed his head, then followed Li Laodao into the main hall and sat down on the futon.
As a Taoist boy wearing monk's robes offered spiritual tea, Ao Ren cupped his hands and said, "I'm here to ask for advice from fellow Taoists."
"Oh?" Li Laodao asked curiously: "Did Water Priest encounter any trouble?"
Ao Ren said: "To be honest, one of my magic weapons was stolen by Hu Meng from Dianxiang Mountain. Without this magic weapon, I can't defeat him."
When Li Laodao heard this, he immediately exclaimed: "He can actually steal your magic weapon? As his name suggests, he is a bit fierce."
Ao Ren's face darkened and he said, "He used despicable means."
With that said, Ao Ren briefly described the origin of Kuixing Inkstone and the process of being stolen by Hu Meng.
After listening to this, Li Laodao said immediately: "You are surrounded by some immoral women. This result is expected. It's not surprising."
"..." Ao Ren took a deep breath, then solemnly raised his hand and asked: "Do you have any way to help me regain the magic weapon? If you, Taoist, can help me regain the magic weapon, I will be very grateful!"
After hearing this, Li Laodao closed his eyes and counted, then shook his head and said: "I have a way to help the Water Priest regain the magic weapon, but this magic weapon is destined not to belong to you, nor to Hu Meng. Its owner is someone else." , I advise you not to take it back, you will get yourself into big trouble."
"I'm not afraid." Ao Ren said, "As long as I can get Kuixing Yan's evil breath back from Hu Meng's hands, I won't be afraid of any other troubles."
Li Laodao's expression suddenly became serious, and he saw his eyes staring at Ao Ren, as if looking at a strong man who was about to die generously... "Shui Priest is worthy of being the son of the dragon. The old Taoist admires him, well, since Shui The priest has said all this, so I can't help you anymore."
After saying that, Li Laodao reached out and took out a magic weapon from his sleeve, a golden magic weapon.
