Jiang Shuo didn't expect that after living underground for almost two years, the first person he saw when he returned to the surface was Taibai's old friend Yuan Danqiu. How could he not be happy? He quickly rushed towards him and knelt down to kowtow. Yuan Danqiu hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him up. , smiled and said: "Oh yo yo, I can't bear the gift from the young leader of Jianghu. Shuo'er doesn't need to be polite. Come on, I haven't seen you for two years, but you have grown a lot taller."
Jiang Shuo is at the age of vigorous growth. Although he has lived in seclusion under Maoshan Mountain for the past two years, he has been practicing martial arts and refining Qi every day, and his physical growth has not slowed down at all. He is fifteen years old this year. Although he is still a teenager, he has already faintly grown into a youth. The man's physical appearance has changed.
Yuan Danqiu met Zhao Rui again and said, "Mr. Zhao, where have you and Shuo'er been in the past two years? Mr. Zhenyin sent his disciples to search through Maoshan Mountain, but they couldn't find you. He disappeared out of thin air, and we were all very worried, but we didn't want to meet him again here."
After the Duanlong Stone was closed, it fit tightly with the rock. There was no sign of a stone gate. When Yuan Danqiu came back from the outside, he didn't know that the two men and the ape had come out of the ground. He only knew that they entered the cave by themselves first.
Zhao Rui smiled and said: "It seems that the search was not thorough enough, so I can't find it."
Yuan Danqiu asked: "So, Master Zhao, have you really been hiding in Maoshan these past two years?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Yes..."
Zhao Rui said: "No!"
Jiang Shuo then remembered that Zhao Rui told him not to reveal anything about Juqu Cave Mansion, so he kept silent, but Zhao Rui ignored Jiang Shuo. He pointed at the white ape and said to Yuan Danqiu: "During this period, we and this Together with Bai Lang, we traveled in the mountains and forests and worked as Xiaoyao Immortals for two years."
Yuan Danqiu had already seen a white ape beside the two of them, but he knew that Zhao Rui was good at animal language and often called the ape to attract birds to play, so he didn't find it very strange. He also saw that the two people's clothes were in tatters, so he knew that there must be something hidden between them. But Zhao Rui is a senior. He is unwilling to say anything, and Yuan Danqiu is also reluctant to ask. He smiled and said: "Looking at the naked appearance of the two of you, it has nothing to do with the word 'Xiaoyao'. I still have some here." There are a few sets of changes of clothes, if you two don’t mind, please change them.”
As he spoke, he took out two sets of Taoist robes. Yuan Danqiu was tall and tall. Zhao Rui's clothes were too big for him, while Jiang Shuo was more than six feet tall and had an almost adult figure. The Taoist robes fit him quite well, making him look like a heroic figure. Handsome little Taoist priest. There were ready-made stone stools and tables in the cave. When the three of them sat down, Yuan Danqiu asked for a drink. Jiang Shuo, who was familiar with the situation, found a wine cup in the cave and gave the two the wine gourd he found earlier. When someone poured the wine, Zhao Rui said, "Shuo'er, you are now a grown man, so you should drink a few cups."
Jiang Shuo was ordered to buy himself a wine cup and poured a little. Yuan Danqiu took out some flour cakes and dried fruits to serve as food and drink. Zhao Rui drank a full cup and sighed: "Good wine." , Good wine! I haven’t drank in the cave for almost two years..." He consciously lost his words and quickly changed the subject: "Don’t talk about us, why are you here, Dan Qiusheng?"
Yuan Danqiu knew something was wrong, but did not try to expose him. He said: "The two of them disappeared suddenly that day. I also followed them on the mountain to search for half a month. However, one thing was that there was really no clue, and the other thing was that there were many disciples in Maoshan." I am alone, and I think that with Master Zhao’s skills, I will not be hijacked by others, so after a month’s delay, I bid farewell to the Grand Master and left Maoshan.”
Zhao Rui thought to himself, "I'm ashamed. I was kidnapped by others and had no choice but to retreat into the cave." But he didn't say anything, just nodded and smiled.
Yuan Danqiu continued: "After that, Yuan first returned to Songyang Temple in Songshan Mountain. This spring, he still wanted to do some old work of collecting medicines and refining elixirs. While collecting medicines in Lushan Mountain, he suddenly thought that this ancient sacred furnace was nearby, so he Come and open the furnace to test the elixir."
When Jiang Shuo heard this, he interrupted and asked, "Are Mrs. Liu, Sister Changyang, and Master Boqin still living here?"
But Yuan Danqiu shook his head and said: "Yuan was only here ten days earlier than you. When he came, the front house was already empty. Madam Liu and her children are unknown where they have gone."
Jiang Shuo asked, "Could it be that Mr. Taibai was granted an official position in Chang'an and took his family to Gyeonggi for reunion?"
Yuandan Qiuqiu said: "Why don't you know that Taibai has been released with gold by the saint?"
As soon as this sentence came out, even Zhao Rui was surprised and said: "Tai Tianbao was ordered to return in the late autumn of the first year of the first year, and it was only less than three years, and it was returned?"
Yuan Danqiu said: "How could there be two years? When Taibai arrived in the capital, it was already the winter of the first year of Tianbao. At the end of the next year, he was given the gold and returned it. It would not take more than one year. I heard that it was Yang Guifei, Gao Lishi and others. The powerful people were offended, but Danqiu is not in the court, so the specific details are not clear."
Zhao Rui was disappointed when he heard this, and said sadly: "Taibai wasted half his life, and finally became a member of the Imperial Academy, but he was harmed by a villain woman, and his aspirations could not be expanded. Now that he is released, I am afraid that there will be no hope of fame in this life..."
Strangely enough, Zhao Rui regarded his fame as dirt and did not want to serve as an official in the court. When he was in Dakuang Mountain, Emperor Ming repeatedly saw him, but he refused to obey. However, he had great expectations for his disciple Li Bai, and not only taught him Ci Fu also taught him the knowledge of managing the world. After Li Bai completed his studies, he encouraged Li Bai to go to Shu to seek an official position. Because although Zhao Rui himself was full of knowledge, he was still clean and uncontaminated, while Li Bai liked liveliness and sociability, so Zhao Rui hoped that Li Bai could live in the temple and achieve success to prove his talents and learning. Now I heard that Li Bai's official career was not going well. He was such a proud disciple in literature, and he was afraid that his knowledge would be buried, so he felt melancholy.
Yuan Danqiu said: "The sage summoned Taibai to the capital, and originally he only regarded him as a literary jester. He has been writing lyrics and poems for a year. Even if there is no villain to cause trouble, Taibai has no serious political affairs to do. I want him to give him money. It wouldn't be a bad thing to let him go." He said, feeling self-conscious.
Yuan Danqiu was originally from Shu, and had known Li Bai since they were young. He later became a Taoist priest in Songshan Mountain. He only felt that glory and wealth were like passing clouds, and there was no fun in refining alchemy and practicing Taoism.
Jiang Shuo asked, "Where has Mr. Taibai gone now?"
Yuan Danqiu said: "When Danqiu left Songshan, he heard that Taibai was taught the Taoist urn by Gao Tianshi Rugui in Ziji Palace in Qizhou and made the real urn. Now he should be in Donglu to seek immortality and visit Taoism. The details are Where it is, I don’t know.”
Zhao Rui laughed and scolded: "Li Taibai, this little monkey, has been away for so long and didn't even bother to go home to reunite with his wife, so he went to play again."
Yuan Danqiu said: "Taibai visited me in Songshan Mountain last year. It seems that he made new friends in Luoyang. It's so nice to travel with friends!" As he said this, he and Zhao Rui raised a cup together and became white again.
While they were chatting happily, Jiang Shuo suddenly said, "Someone is coming."
Yuan Danqiu was shocked. He was obsessed with alchemy and was denounced as a heretic by Sima Chengzhen. His kung fu was not top-notch among the Shangqing sect, but his internal skills were quite advanced. He listened attentively to Jiang Shuo's words but did not respond. Feeling someone approaching.
However, Zhao Rui knew that Jiang Shuo had become sharper and sharper after taking two dragon beads. In the past two years, he had practiced Jade Jue and his ear tone had become even better. If Jiang Shuo said that someone was here, he would be afraid that The person is still a hundred feet away. He asked Jiang Shuo: "Where is the visitor now?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Outside the courtyard, there are two women."
Yuan Danqiu was even more surprised, saying, "You have to walk more than ten feet from this cave to the courtyard gate. How come you, Shuo'er, have such an ear?"
Zhao Rui said: "You will know when you go out and take a look."
Jiang Shuo walked and said, "One is a lady, the other is a little girl...eh...could it be..." He thought that the two girls, one older and one younger, could be Xiang'er mother and daughter? But how do they know they are here?
Thinking of this, Jiang Shuo rushed out of Aili Cave first. Zhao Rui and Yuan Danqiu followed him and turned around the courtyard wall. Sure enough, they saw two women. One was a simple lady wearing an apricot-colored cloth robe. Wearing a yellow crown, she looked like a female Taoist priest. The other was a cardamom girl wearing a green shirt and not even haircut. It was exactly what Jiang Shuo said. Yuan Danqiu was greatly surprised when he saw it.
The lady in apricot robes was riding on a white donkey. People in the Tang Dynasty called donkeys "guards". Many women and children would ride donkeys when they went out. What was strange was that the donkey was all white, without a trace of hair. It looked like a small horse. The white horse looked similar, but the girl in green clothes was walking. At this moment, she was standing outside Chai Fei and calling the door. Jiang Shuo said it was Xiang'er and her aunt. He ran over in a hurry. He didn't want to be so anxious that he tripped. With his current cultivation level, Naturally, he wouldn't fall down. He leaned forward to stabilize his body, but he looked quite embarrassed.
The girl in the green shirt smiled and said: "Madam, why is there no one at the door? There is a frivolous little Huang Guan outside the door."
At this time, Jiang Shuo had seen her face clearly. The little girl had fair skin and beautiful features, but she was not Xiang'er. He couldn't help but feel disappointed, and turned around to walk back. The girl in green clothes jumped over and grabbed his shoulder, saying: "Hey, little Taoist priest, don't leave. I have something to ask you." Because Jiang Shuo was wearing Yuan Danqiu's clothes, the girl misunderstood him as a little Taoist priest.
The green-shirted girl's leaping skills are also quite good, and she obviously has the guidance of a famous teacher. However, with Jiang Shuo's current cultivation level, how can he let her hold on to his shoulders? His hand slipped to the side, and the girl in green shirt missed her grasp. She said "Huh" and stepped forward to grab him again. This time, she clearly looked at him and caught him on the shoulder, but it slipped away again like a loach. Jiang Shuo couldn't help but Willing to tangle with her again, he swayed his body and used Star Crossing Step, and returned to Zhao Rui and Yuan Danqiu in a few steps.
The girl in green robe turned around and said to the woman in apricot robe: "Madam, this little Taoist priest knows magic, it's very weird."
However, the woman in apricot robes had already seen that the magic used by Jiang Shuo was definitely not a magic skill, but a very magical light skill. She wondered how there could be a little Taoist boy with such superb skills in this remote place. Then she looked at Zhao Rui and Zhao who were following closely. Both Yuan Danqiu and Yuan Danqiu were also dressed as Taoist priests, so they couldn't figure it out for the moment.
Yuan Danqiu naturally knew that what Jiang Shuo used was very superb martial arts. He said softly: "Shuo'er, when did you learn such superb martial arts? Have the two Qi in your body been resolved?" He said with great joy.
Jiang Shuo replied: "The Erqi has not been completely resolved, but it will generally be out of the way."
Zhao Rui was afraid that Jiang Shuo would be quick to say something about Qudong, so he interrupted: "There have been adventures in the past two years. Shuo'er not only saved his life, but also learned excellent martial arts, but we can't talk about these things until later. Chi, let’s resolve the matter at hand first.”
He pointed with his hand, but saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance. Soon, more than ten knights in costumes rode through the woods and galloped towards the crowd.
