Wang Xizhou's reaction was beyond the expectations of Bai Gu and Hua Xie. After locking himself in the room all morning, Wang Xizhou walked out of the room by himself in the afternoon.
Still smiling and polite as usual.
Hua Xie and Bai Gu were leaning against the corridor window and chatting. One was leaning on the window sill and eating melon seeds. The other moved a recliner to lie down and chew dried fruits.
While they were chatting about where the grilled fish was delicious and how it was cooked, Wang Xizhou's door opened.
Then Wang Xizhou walked to the two of them with a natural smile and stood there as usual, showing no trace of sadness.
Bai Gu and Hua Xie were stunned.
Did you get better so quickly?
Are we all worrying in vain?
Hua Xie jumped off the window sill with a concerned look on his face, "Old Wang, are you okay?"
"Everything is fine in Xizhou, don't worry."
Hua Xie rubbed his hands and hesitated to speak, but still couldn't hold back a single word.
He had a lot to say, but it felt like it wasn't the right time to say it now.
Bai Gu swallowed the dried fruit in his mouth and said, "Brother Wang, after we go to Black Sheep Mountain to do things, if we can still go together, let's go to Yumi Mountain to have a look."
Wang Xizhou nodded and said, "Okay."
Hua Xie lowered his head slightly and winked at Bai Gu.
No, when are you still talking about this? Do you talk without thinking when you go out?
Bai Gu ignored it and said to himself: "I asked Brother Duan to go to a Taoist Qiu to tell his fortune when he passed by Yunshui City, and maybe he could help keep him safe. Now it seems that Brother Duan is either afraid of trouble, or not. Go find it, or that guy took the money and didn't do anything. When I get back to Yunshui City, I will go find that guy to settle the score."
Wang Xizhou has been in Yunshui City for several years, and he also knows who Qiu Zizai is. "Taoist Qiu has calculated the world in his mind. He has profound knowledge and has his own reasons for doing things. Brother Duan's matter is probably fate, and Taoist Qiu is helpless." .”
Bai Gu covered his belly with one hand and handed the bag of dried fruits to Wang Xizhou with the other hand, "I don't care anyway. I introduced him and he accepted the money. This matter can't be handled well. It's a shame." He lost my face, I have to get it back from him."
Wang Xizhou took the dried fruit bag, took a piece from it, put it into his mouth and chewed it. It was sweet. "It is also his fate that Taoist Qiu has such a friend as you."
"It's not really a friend, just an acquaintance. We occasionally curse and kick him. I'm not that familiar with him. I think it's unlucky to be friends with him."
Wang Xizhou smiled.
Hua Xie looked on with a strange expression.
Can we still talk like this today?
The key is that Lao Wang still laughed? What the hell is going on?
Hua Xie really couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started cracking them.
Wang Xizhou glanced at the corridor under Hua Xie's feet, "Xiao Xie, remember to clean it up when you leave later. You have to change your bad habit of spitting out melon seed shells."
Hua Xie twitched the corner of his mouth and responded in a low voice.
Well, it’s confirmed, it’s the original Lao Wang, unchanged at all.
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On the eaves of a roof, Qiu Zizai was holding a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, chewing on toothbrush seeds, with an aggrieved and helpless look on his face.
Damn it, it doesn't matter if a tourist died, but if you really want to settle the account, across the thousands of mountains and thousands of rivers of Fangyuan Mountain, there is also Xiaobai Gu who is looking for trouble, so I am not afraid.
But why should Pindao be blamed for what happened at Yumi Mountain?
I really think I'm a trash can, specially designed to collect your mess!
Pooh!
What a bunch of bad people!
Mr. Wu suddenly appeared out of thin air and stood next to Qiu Zizai, "You could have just cursed out, they can hear it anyway."
"Xiaodao doesn't want to break the rules for this group of... guys who have bells under their eyebrows and whose buttocks and brains are in the wrong place. It's not worth it."
"You are getting more and more advanced in swearing now."
"It's okay. After staying with Xiao Baigu and the old guy for a long time, I naturally became influenced by them."
Mr. Wu took out something and handed it to Qiu Zizai, "Take it."
Qiu Zizai took it and glanced at it, "What is it?"
"Don't you want to leave here?"
Qiu Zizai sighed softly, "There are still thirty-seven years left, so I can't leave even if I want to."
"Sent from Zhongyi Academy, it will allow you to leave this circle early."
Qiu Zizai couldn't help but sneered and held it in his hand, "Is that all?"
This is a small paperweight, made of Polygonatum odorifera, engraved with various cryptic texts and spiritual seals.
"This is jointly created by the leaders of Zhongyi Academy and the palace owner. It can help you break the forbidden curse in a short time and break the circle in advance."
Qiu Zizai weighed the thing in his hand and chuckled, "I don't know if they think too highly of their own abilities, or if they underestimate the old immortal's strength too much, they actually think that with their abilities, Can you break the forbidden spell cast by the old immortal himself?"
Mr. Wu frowned slightly, "You can't even tear it apart for a short time?"
Qiu Zizi didn't say anything, he just pressed the paperweight in his hand gently in the air, and ripples suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.
That is the spatial fluctuation caused by touching the great order of the world here.
The paperweight that was pressed into the void gradually disappeared until it was gone. Then, after a nearly imperceptible tremor, the heaven and earth returned to calm.
The shaking of the heaven and earth was so slight that except for a few beings in the city who could touch the horizon, everyone else was doing their own things without incident.
For example, Jiang Fengmian.
Qiu Zizai pursed his lips, "Look, it's useless, and it's a waste of a good-grade paperweight."
"How could it be, that's all?"
"Mr. Wu, you are too advanced to ask me." Qiu Zizai raised his hand and rubbed his temples, "Those guys also want to break open the turtle shell under the old immortal cloth, so you should go to bed as soon as possible. In the dream There’s everything.”
Mr. Wu gently stroked his white beard and said, "They are millions of miles apart, and they are just a circle. The Taoist charm is still so strong. They are worthy of being old and immortal."
"Although I drew this circle myself, it was still drawn with a tree branch that the old immortal had touched. No matter how fragile it is, not a group of self-respecting old stubborns can break it."
Mr. Wu glanced at Qiu Zizai.
Qiu Zizai chuckled, "What's wrong? Is the gossip wrong? Those old stubborn and pedantic people make more and more outrageous rules. They only do some superficial skills to show the world, and they only follow the rules they set. Crushing his own people to death. He also recruited those uncivilized beasts, good or bad, into the group. He said that there is no distinction between education and inclusiveness, stimulating a new generation of scholars, allowing them to go hand in hand and learn from each other. But this group of They turned a blind eye when the beasts harmed the world and ruined people's livelihood, and even protected those beasts at every turn, saying they were stubborn and pedantic just to give them an advantage."
"Xiaodao heard a saying that these old stubborns are probably of the same origin as those beasts, and they are part of the same group. They are here to mess up our world, teach our new generation bad, and make us lose without a fight. Finally, he gave them a more suitable nickname, old beast. Ha, Xiaodao feels that this nickname is really suitable for them. Mr. Wu, if you meet them next time, you can say hello to them. "
Mr. Wu smiled and said: "Then we won't be able to continue talking today. After all, we are old acquaintances who don't look up when we meet, and they can't afford to make such a joke."
"That's what old stubborn people are like. They only talk about words and find faults in others. They don't see their own problems at all. They can't make jokes. They smell like rotten wood."
Mr. Wu raised his head slightly and said, "Stop talking, otherwise I will make people angry."
"Oh, that's it. Xiaodao is so scared." Qiu Zizai rolled his eyes, "If they have the ability, they will come. Let's see if they are more capable, or if Lao Bu Shei gave Xiaodao a hard shell."
"Are you really afraid that they will come in person?"
"It's so majestic to be able to break your own rules and force the people below you to follow them as golden rules! It's incomparable, it's incomparable."
"Your sinister tone is comparable to that old guy."
"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Wu." Qiu Zizai tugged at the corner of his mouth and looked up at the sky, "To be honest, Xiaodao is really not afraid of them coming. They can look down on Xiaodao's Taoism, but they are in their own little land. I have been here for too long, and I dare not even look down on the old immortal. I have really made myself stupid by studying. There are so many capable people in the world, and there are many people who scold the old immortal, but those who dare to look down on the old immortal are the only ones who are stupid. The old man of books is stubborn.”
Mr. Wu smiled and said, "You still say you don't protect him? You are in Cao's camp and your heart is with Han."
"Xiao Dao is just telling the truth. Is it possible that Mr. Wu is like those old stubborns?"
"You scold them when you scold them, why do you still want to take me with you? Why, you think I'm a stubborn person too."
"If Mr. Wu is willing, Xiaodao can help promote it."
Wu Laoxiao scolded: "Get out! You have lowered my reputation by several levels over the years. I haven't settled this matter with you yet."
Qiu Zizai suddenly took out a talisman and handed it to Mr. Wu, "This is a mountain-suppressing talisman, called Laicang. It can suppress the roots of the mountain and detain the mountain energy. It should be able to solve the loopholes in Yumi Mountain in a short time."
Mr. Wu didn't care about Qiu Zizai's one-handed delivery of the talisman, and stretched out his hand to put the talisman away. "It must have taken a lot of effort to refine this talisman."
Qiu Zizai was silent in a rare moment, and then sighed slowly after a moment, "It was the old man who used some tricks to stuff a Sumeru bead into Xiaodao before he left. This mountain-holding talisman is among them."
Mr. Wu was stunned, "Can he even calculate this?"
Qiu Zizai held his chin with one hand, "Have you forgotten that he has a nickname that he hasn't used in a long time? And isn't this his Tao?"
"Yes, Old Abacus, maybe many new generations have never heard of it." Mr. Wu sighed with emotion, "Having monopolized this way for tens of thousands of years, and knowing the situation at the palm of his hand, this old immortal can be regarded as a romantic figure of the generation. "
"Really? Mr. Wu, your demands are a bit high."
Mr. Wu smiled slightly, "It's not that I have high demands. If we only talk about the achievements of the Great Dao, Lao Immortal is enough to be famous in the long river of history, and he is still ranked extremely high. But he just intervenes in the world's situation and fiddles with it as he pleases. This is It has ruined his reputation. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people complaining and wishing to get rid of him."
"Then no one succeeded in these years, so I got the nickname Lao Immortal. Ha, should I say it or not, it fits the bill."
Mr. Wu lowered his head and glanced at the squatting Qiu Zizai, "Sometimes, I really don't know what you are thinking. Obviously the vast world outside is suitable for your practice, but you have to hide here and be a tortoise. A Taoist priest The transcendent Immortal Official has to wander around the market, pretending to be a clown who is greedy for life and afraid of death. Why bother?"
Qiu Zizai gave a wry smile, and then he became energetic. His eyes were as bright as the sun and moon in the sky, "You are training your mind in the world of mortals. Can Mr. Wu be considerate?"
Mr. Wu did not answer, but took another deep look at Qiu Zizai, and said meaningfully: "Sometimes sleeping for too long and not waking up can be bad."
"Don't worry, Mr. Wu, Xiaodao has his own sense of propriety. Besides, Xiaodao hasn't woken up, so he still has you."
Mr. Wu chuckled, turned and left.
Qiu Zizai leaned back, and the scenery below him changed from the eaves to a large locust tree. Qiu Zizai lay firmly on one of the thick branches.
Qiu Zizai closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep, murmuring softly.
"I have understood the Dharma of three thousand human beings, and the stars and rivers are full of moonlight and the flowers are falling on the water. The poor cloud crown is not at ease, and I can only act like a human being."
