It's a hundred to dozens of miles to Qingcheng Mountain.
The transportation around Yizhou City is developed and there are many roads. There is also an official road to Qingcheng Mountain.
In a previous life, this distance would have taken less than an hour to reach, but now, no matter how strong your feet are, it would be difficult to reach it in a day. The official road is really convenient for pedestrians, otherwise it will take more time to find and fight with the mountain road.
If you want to arrive early, you must leave early.
Song You has already started to pack his bags.
At this time there was another knock on the door.
"Tuk tuk tuk..."
Song You went to open the door again, and standing outside was Luo Baotou.
"Meet sir."
Song You was a little surprised and looked down.
"Head of the class, this is..."
"The persimmons from my hometown are ripe. Yesterday, my family asked someone to bring some. They don't look good, but they are very sweet. But I brought too many and my family couldn't finish them all, so I brought them over for my husband to try too." Catcher Luo was holding a bamboo basket in his hand, filled with lantern-like persimmons. "It's not too much, you can just taste it. Sir, don't be too little."
This catcher is also a talker.
How could Song You have the nerve to refuse?
So he took the bamboo basket, picked out the small lanterns one by one, and placed them on the stone table.
Let Sanhua Empress come closer and sniff again and again, Song You handed the diabolo basket back to Luo Catcher, thinking thoughtfully and said: "Thank you very much Luo Catcher, but Song has something else that he would like to ask Catcher to help with."
"Sir, it's okay to say so!"
"Yesterday I had the honor to meet Yu Zhizhou in Wase. Zhizhou gave him both ink sticks and felts, but he was disrespectful and I felt ashamed. After much thought, Song wanted to give Zhizhou a painting as a return gift. But Song was in a hurry to go. Qingchengshan visited an old friend of his master’s sect, but it was inconvenient to go there. I remembered that the squad leader had to pass by the Zhizhou mansion every day when he went to work, so I wanted to ask the squad leader to take him along the way. "
"Yu Zhizhou!"
Luo Captou was immediately shocked.
That was a governor of a state, a high official in a border area.
Yizhou is also a large state in Dayan. Not only does its jurisdiction equal two or three ordinary states, it is also very wealthy economically and culturally. The governor of Yizhou is somewhat more important than other governors.
But Yu Zhizhou is more than that.
Yu Zhizhou was very famous, and his civil and official reputation was not small. This time he came to Yizhou to take up the post of Zhizhou, but he was actually demoted. Compared to such big shots, I am just a small headhunter, and it is still a family tradition. Even if I am just familiar with him, there may be a lot of benefits.
How can I ask myself to help bring gifts?
It was obviously a blessing given to me by my husband.
"I'll definitely bring it to you next time!"
Mr. Luo quickly reached out and took the scroll.
What's on your way to work? Go here specially!
"Thank you, class leader."
"Thank you sir."
Luo Captou carefully took the scroll and went out.
Song You stood at the door of the room, watching Luo Baotou's leaving figure, he couldn't help but fell into deep thought and remained motionless.
There seems to be more and more involved.
Song You didn't want to get too involved with others, and it's hard to explain why. Unexpectedly, after living in the city for two or three months, even though he lived in seclusion, his involvement with others became deeper and deeper, as if it was inevitable.
Just ask Luo Captou for help today——
Song You didn't want to do this, but he also didn't want not to do it. There was a real contradiction in this. And this contradiction is worth savoring and thinking about.
After thinking about it, there is only one answer.
Maybe that's not the right idea.
This walk down the mountain is about being involved with people, or in other words, part of its meaning comes from this.
"Taoist priest, are you dead?"
"not yet."
"oh."
Empress Sanhua looked at him for a long time and breathed a sigh of relief.
"how you said that?"
"Miss Sanhua, I see that you are not moving."
"I was just thinking."
"think."
"Let's go too."
"Let's go too."
"..."
Song You still had some distracting thoughts in his mind, but he took his luggage and letter, took Sanhua Empress with him, and walked out of the city.
As I walked, I thought about it, and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
After understanding it, your whole body will feel refreshed.
Only then did I realize that someone had planted sweet-scented osmanthus, and half of the city was fragrant.
The road is not long either.
Speaking of Qingcheng Mountain, it is really a famous Taoist mountain in Yizhou and even the entire southwest of Dayan. However, Qingcheng Mountain is very large and very famous. Many hermits have come to build temples or huts on the mountain. Although the Taoism or cultivation of these hermits varies, most of them have neither cultivation nor Taoism. I am a pure cultivator who simply loves this way, but there are indeed many palaces and temples on this mountain.
From the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, it is said that there are dozens of large and small palaces.
However, what Song You wanted to visit was not the largest, most famous, and oldest ones, but the Fuqing Palace on the back mountainside, which was neither big nor small.
As soon as you hear the name, you can tell that it is probably a serious Taoist temple.
Fu, Qing, and Qing are all commonly used words in Taoist names. Names like Fulongguan, which do not sound Taoist, are not mainstream. If this kind of temple is not too ancient and the name was already given long before these naming conventions were established, then it is not serious.
Fulongguan occupied both.
It's both ancient and unorthodox.
Fuqing Palace became associated with Fulong Temple in the generation of Master You of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the master, like Song You now, traveled all over the world. Not far from the mountain gate, he met the future owner of Fuqing Palace. After the master came back from his travels and took over Fulong Temple, the master of Fuqing Palace would visit Fulong Temple almost every year, and would often bring his disciples to exchange practice experiences and ask for advice on the mysteries of magic.
When the palace master dies, his disciples will come.
This fate has been preserved until Song You's master's generation, and then to Song You's generation. At least for now, he still remembers Fuqing Palace. Fuqing Palace also comes every year, so the fate has not faded.
Therefore, we were able to ask them to help carry the letter.
These days, things are going crazy. Although there is a postal system, it is not open to the common people. News is difficult to deliver. Sometimes a letter can be worth ten thousand dollars.
However, Song You had never been to Fuqing Palace.
You have to walk slowly and find people to ask for directions.
Fortunately, Song You was very patient, and even better, he was accompanied by Empress Sanhua, so every step along the way was clear and deeply and meaningfully remembered in his mind.
Halfway through, better things happened one after another.
First, there was an old man driving a bullock cart. Seeing him walking alone, he gave him a ride along the way.
The bullock cart brought vegetables into the city in the morning. It was already tired. The owner was kind to him, so the empty cart also walked slowly on the way back. It was probably about the same speed as Song You himself, so it saved some energy.
Not long after I said goodbye to the old man, I met another caravan, which was running much faster than the ox cart. I also saw that he was wearing Taoist robes. After stopping to ask, I took him for another ride.
We actually arrived at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain at night.
However, it was already impossible to go up the mountain at this time, so Song You had no choice but to find a temple at the foot of the mountain. He took out the ultimatum to show his identity, respectfully and clearly stated his purpose. The host kept him in the guest room for one night, and even took off the bacon and cooked a nice meal with him in the evening. It was the bragging and drinking sessions during the meal that made it difficult for him to cope.
…
Yidu City, the residence of the magistrate.
Yu Zhizhou stood in front of a newly framed and hung painting with his hands behind his back.
The content of the painting is very simple——
The tree trunks and branches are outlined in a few strokes, without the head or tail. A few cinnabar are randomly sprinkled to represent red plums. On the tree is a cat outlined in ink. It is very freehand and there is nothing else.
Yu Zhizhou is an elegant person and is quite accomplished in painting. According to him, this painting is not only simple, but also has mediocre skills, but somehow, it always feels like it has an inexplicable charm. The simply outlined cat turned out to be so vivid and lifelike.
The more you look at it, the more vivid it becomes.
After looking at it for a long time, sometimes I feel as if the cat is moving. It may turn its head and blink, or look up to admire the flowers. If I take a closer look, it is no different from before.
This painting is charming and charming.
What's more, it was a gift from Mr.
So Yu Zhizhou had it framed and hung in the room in the afternoon.
Something amazing happened.
After the cold dew and frost fell, it was almost the beginning of winter. Not only the people in the city were anxious, but the rats in the mansion were also very anxious. They often jumped up and down in the house, making a lot of noise at night. It happened that he, the Zhizhou, could manage the people in the city, but he couldn't control the little creature who lived with him in the Zhizhou's mansion, which gave him a headache.
After hanging this painting, it was actually a quiet night.
There was no sound at all.
Yu Zhizhou thought he was sleeping well and didn't hear anything, but after asking the person next to him and his servants, they all said that last night was peaceful, as if all the mice had taken a bath together.
Yu Zhizhou was secretly amazed.
The Chinese division at that time may not have had this ability.
