Chapter 44 A pair of melancholy eyes
More than a hundred girls from the Emei Sect, led by the elders, walked down the Emei Golden Top with passion and looked at death.
Along the road, the water is quiet and the geese fly, as quiet as a painting.
Due to safety reasons, many hidden stakes that were originally placed on the hillside were withdrawn. Therefore, after halfway through the journey, no information was collected. A blind spot for identification was formed in the area below.
As they approached the mountain, they became more and more quiet. They reached the foot of the mountain, and the mountains were still quiet. Only the insects were heard, the leaves were shaking gently. Under the faint moonlight, there was no other person except for them.
A middle-aged elder pressed the hilt of the sword and slowly wandered into the grass in front with great vigilance. He turned around and returned to Elder Zhou and said, "Elder Zhou, the grass has traces of being trampled in batches, and the traces are not in the same direction. At least, it has been pulled by the forces of both positive and negative directions. In other words, a large number of people have indeed climbed the mountain and went down the mountain. Judging from the crease, the last time is no more than half an hour."
It can be seen that Elder Zhou believed in the elder's survey technology very much, nodded slightly, and pondered: "Elder Ma, your judgment is correct, because before midnight, our disciples had learned that hundreds of people from the Yellow-Shirt Sect gathered at the foot of the mountain, and we came down along the way, approaching the foot of the mountain, and even a night bird was not alarmed. It was obvious that the birds here were frightened and flew away shortly before."
A middle-aged Taoist nun next to him said, "Can't it be that the Yellow-Shirt Sect's people received some orders in the middle and retreated?"
Elder Zhou said: "The withdrawal is a temporary decision, otherwise they would not have done such useless achievements. The question is, what exactly caused them to withdraw so quickly and decisively is to make people feel at ease."
The Elder Ma said, "Elder Zhou, what should we do now?"
Elder Zhou thought for a while and said, "Let's go back first. Arrange more personnel on the original stake. Once there is any change in the situation, no war is allowed, and report it immediately."
Elder Ma said: "Yes."
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On this day, the head of Guo Donglai finally received a letter from the sect, which was more than two days than expected, which was the fourth day, the eighth day of the lunar month.
However, although the letter was late, it is gratifying that everything in the pride was still fine. They only emphasized that they should be cautious on the way, especially to prevent the Yellow-Shirt Sect from causing trouble. Such as the Yellow-Shirt Sect's large-scale invasion of the Emei Sect, they did not mention it. They just mentioned that the Yellow-Shirt Sect had appeared in the Emei area and quickly disappeared.
It can be seen from the date of the letter that it was written on the fifth day of the lunar month. At least it was explained that on the fourth day of the lunar month, there was no devastating action as the dead tree said on the Emei Sect Mountain.
Master Guo held the letter and watched it for a long time, and confirmed that the handwriting was calm from the heart, rather than the disguise of pretending to be concealed in a hurry. He then slowly relaxed and smiled at Elder Qian and said, "It seems that God blessed our Emei Sect, and a great disaster has disappeared."
Elder Qian said: "Don't the leader think this matter is extremely strange?"
Master Guo said: "Oh?"
Elder Qian said: "Based on the habit of the Yellow-Shirt Sect, we can see that since Yun Zhonglong sent the dead tree to bring people to intercept us - to put it correctly, he was here to die! This is a typical loss-making business. How could Yun Zhonglong, who is extremely smart and has no choice but to be foolish? Now, it is not difficult for us to understand his intention. He sent the dead tree to us, obviously to send him to death in our hands, and then get the reason to attack our Emei, that is, he is fighting a big battle with us with a time difference."
After a slight pause, Elder Qian continued: "Then, if the dead tree is dead, it is impossible for him to suddenly feel conscience at the most critical moment and cancel the plan. The only reasonable reason is that he encountered a more serious matter - at least, something more important than destroying our Emei Sect."
Chief Guo nodded and said, "The only explanation is more reasonable."
She looked up at the sky. It was almost dusk. She lowered her head and seemed to ponder for a moment, and said, "There is Jingling County in front of her. The bull's nose Xuyunzi in Tianmen Mountain was my old acquaintance. I would like to disturb him for a night. I dare not say anything wrong."
Elder He next to him smiled and said nothing. Uh, it seems that there is a story here.
Of course, the class identity of the leader Guo is there. If anyone mistakenly thinks that everyone is equal and anyone is qualified to share anyone's story, his head must be filled with glutinous rice mud.
Therefore, although most of the disciples under the sect showed their fascination and expectation, no one dared to ask about the story between Sect Guo and Xu Yunzi.
Even if Master Guo is approachable and likes to be a role model, he wants to use her privacy to increase the knowledge of his disciples and satisfy their desire for knowledge. It is simply absurdity of being irresponsible to him and he will never do it.
So, Master Guo raised his sleeve and pursed his lips, pointed the Buddha Chen in his hand forward, and shouted in a low voice: "Get up!"
After half an hour, they climbed Tianmen Mountain.
At this time, the sunset has passed, and night has fallen, and the mountains and forests are particularly dark. Fortunately, the half-circular moon above the sky is clear. It passes through ancient trees and falls on the roads, which has played a illuminating role.
After nearly half an hour, when I reached the waist of the mountain, a bright light suddenly appeared and walked into everyone's sight. Everyone's eyes narrowed, and they realized that in fact, there was an old Taoist in black robe who "drilled" from a monastery carrying the lights - um, why did it be called "drilled"?
This is a science about body shape.
As everyone gradually narrowed the distance, they finally understood that this old Taoist was really short. It is estimated that Wu Dalang, the legendary one, had such a figure. What is most unbearable is that it would be short, but he was still very obese. His waist was almost the same as his height. In this way, he looked like a big square piece of meat. Yes, it was a big piece of meat that could move.
Such an image makes people wonder if he is alive to add jokes to humans?
The young disciples of the Emei Sect wanted to laugh happily, but none of them dared to laugh because they saw their head respect the short Taoist, and waved the Buddha dust with a solemn expression. They stood on their chest with a single palm and said respectfully: "Master Xuyunzi, don't come and have a good time?"
Xu Yunzi didn't reply to the gift, but just nodded slightly and said, "Shang Hao, Shang Hao, come in and rest."
Master Guo said: "I'm disturbing."
Xu Yunzi smiled and said, "President Guo is not polite. The old Taoist lives in seclusion for nearly a hundred years. It is as deserted as drinking boiled water. He finally welcomes the first joy of the noble school in a century. Finally, he has gained some joy and feels happy. Well, you must have never eaten. Wait for the old Taoist to wake up that boy. Oh, the young people are lazy now, and they sleep when they eat enough. How could we be as eager and active as we were when we followed our master to learn skills at that time. We were all around our master and serve them properly. Now, the position has changed. It is the master who serves his disciples. Oh, the world is getting worse and worse..." Xu Yunzi shook his head helplessly with emotion.
Elder He was very interested and said, "Brother Xuyunzi, is the disciple Mr. Mo here?"
Before he could finish his words, a tall and handsome young man in white robe walked out through the door of the two houses. While walking, he rubbed his sleepy eyes. It was obviously awakened by a sweet sleep. What made people speechless was that he was holding a bright sword in his other hand. It seemed that the reason he came out was to settle accounts with someone who interrupted his dream. When he opened his eyes and saw a group of beautiful girls, he couldn't help but eat and said, "God, am I still in the heaven in my dream? If it weren't for it, there were so many beautiful fairies, oh!"
When he saw Elder He's eyes that were smiling, he woke up all sleepyly, his mouth tilted, and he decisively threw down the sword. In the stunned everyone, he flew up, picked Elder He up, opened his mouth and kissed him-
?!?!?!!
At this moment, everyone's heads were forcibly stuffed with question marks and exclamations.
What's the situation?
Which immortal Taoist ancestor can explain it?
As we all know, although Elder He is in his early fifties, she has excellent maintenance and smooth and fair skin, which is no less than that of the wife in her early thirties. What's more serious is that she has a beautiful figure and charming figure, with a bulge in front and a raised back, which is better than Master Guo.
At this moment, most Emei disciples couldn't help but think that the person who actually had a story with Tianmen Mountain was not the leader of Sect Guo, but their respected Elder He.
"Hey hey hey--" Elder He had already noticed the disciples' various meaningful little eyes, and almost vomited blood three times. He wanted to explain it to them. What they saw with their eyes was completely different from what they thought mentally, but when they reached their throats, they retreated back - how can such complex relationships and private matters be easily said, especially what is the reason for explaining them to the younger generations?
She had to stretch out her jade arms to slap the young man in the white robe, hoping that he would calm down and let her go. However, the young man in the white robe tightened his arms, but instead hugged her tighter. He choked and said, "Auntie, you haven't seen Xiaofan for several years. Do you want me?"
Oh, it turns out that he is a nephew, and everyone's expectations have been wasted.
Of course, no one will reflect on his evil thoughts.
With a sound of "aunt", Elder He immediately softened his hand, lowered his slap, stroked the young man's face, smiled, and said softly: "Silly child, in the world, you are the only concern that your aunt can't let go, why don't you want it? Look, are you putting down your aunt first?"
The young man in white robe seemed to have noticed something was wrong. With a "ah", he quickly put Elder He down. Jun's face showed a hint of embarrassment, rubbed his hands, and said, "That, that, um, Xiaofan is anxious about Missing? That, offends you, please forgive me."
Elder He raised his eyebrows and seemed unhappy: "Why, is Auntie very old?"
Mo Xiaofan said anxiously: "Oh, Xiaofan is speechless. You are young. Xiaofan's biggest goal in recent years is to find a good man with both virtue and skills to be my uncle."
Elder He's beautiful face turned red, and he stretched out a finger to poke his forehead, and cursed with a smile: "Because so many people teasing my aunt, aren't you afraid that I will cut you with one sword?"
Mo Xiaofan grabbed his aunt's hand and smiled and felt a little coquettish: "Auntie, how can you bear to bear it?"
Elder He was speechless, shook his head, and did not pull out his caught hand, letting him hold it, and said, "Don't mess with your aunt with these useless things, hurry up and boil water. You are a big man, can't the girls just let them do the cooking and boiling water?"
Mo Xiaofan said: "Of course I will cook, I will cook now."
Elder He said: "We are bringing dry food. Just boil water so that the girls can clean themselves after a while."
"That's how it works." Mo Xiaofan still didn't want to put down his aunt's hand.
Elder He looked at the attachment in his eyes and knew the thoughts of this only relative. The journey of the world is far away. If you leave tomorrow, you will see you far away. Moreover, as a man in the world, living a life of bloodshed from the knife, it can be said that today is not aware of tomorrow. Those spiritual chicken soup prepared for the gathering of the next day are vague legends for them. Every moment they gather, they cherish every moment. The heart felt sore and soft, and they followed Xiaofan silently and dragged towards the kitchen.
President Guo sighed softly and said, "Elder He has suffered."
Xu Yunzi raised his lips and said dissatisfiedly: "Isn't it hard for me, old man? I have been working hard for more than 20 years, and I have been working hard for a handful of shit... Well, is that easy?"
Obviously, although the old Taoist looks more irrelevant to his quality, he is still quite qualitative in dealing with people. When he discovered that his words were inappropriate in front of the girls, he ended decisively.
"Please," he reached into the room and then took the lead in.
One thing is that the leader and the old Taoist are old acquaintances, and the other thing is that Elder He and the old Taoist disciples are related. Everyone seemed to have found the familiarity and affection of their relatives, and they were not polite. They took off the dry food and wine and followed the leader Guo in one after another.
Du Yuying walked off the carriage without exception and walked into the house with the company of two sisters.
Although the room was simple, it was finally spacious enough, at least, enough for more than 20 people to sit on the ground - why should I sit on the ground?
There are not many stools.
Fortunately, the ground is all made of wooden boards, and it is clean and spotless. Not to mention sitting, it is not a problem even if you sleep.
Everyone set up vegetarian food and drinks, and then they started their dinner.
Although Xu Yunzi was a fellow practitioner from the world, he was not interested in light vegetarian food. He just took a pot of wine to accompany Mr. Guo and several elders of the Emei Sect to have a meal.
After a while, Elder Qian turned his head to a middle-aged Taoist nun next to him and said, "Senior Sister Li, please take some food for Elder He."
The middle-aged Taoist nun was Senior Sister Li who once investigated the murder case of Brother Sanyi at the foot of Mount Emei.
In terms of qualifications, she is not as shallow as Elder Qian and other elders. However, her personal qualifications limit her achievements. However, after decades of youth passed away in the Emei Sect, she had no contribution and worked hard. The position of peripheral manager was fully affirmed by her decades of hard work.
Senior Sister Li's full name is Li Yiying. Her name is a bit light and elegant, but in fact it is incompatible with her simple and calm personality. Of course, perhaps, her past was full of longing for life and light and elegant, but as the years passed and the accumulation of life prompted her to bury her dream of youth step by step, and finally live down-to-earth and steady.
At that moment, Li Yiying took a box of vegetarian food and a pot of wine, walked out of the house, and looked over to the kitchen.
Although Xu Yunzi's monks look a bit slim, their family background is extraordinary and rich. Even the scale of this monument is extremely magnificent. It has a long row, from west to east, with more than ten houses, and the kitchen is located at the end of the west end.
Li Yiying shook her head. Xu Yunzi was so strange. She was just a master and apprentice, but she built so many houses. Should she show off or create a beautiful living environment for mosquitoes, rats and ants in the mountains?
Frugality is not only a virtue of worldly affairs, but also a blessing for good thoughts of transcendence. Xu Yunzi is a highly educated practitioner, so why do he go against the path?
Li Yiying walked and thought about the confusion that was entangled in her heart. Unconsciously, she had already arrived in front of the kitchen.
A figure suddenly appeared at the kitchen door, and seemed to walk out in a hurry. Under the moonlight, it was seen that this person was Elder He. Li Yiying was slightly stunned, because in her impression, she seemed to have never seen Elder He who was calm and calm in dealing with things, and she couldn't help but come up and ask, "Elder He, you are..."
Elder He raised his head and saw her. His eyes flashed with a strange light, but he quickly disappeared and said, "Oh, it's Yiying, are you looking for me? Is there anything wrong?"
Li Yiying raised the food box in her hand and said, "Didn't you have eaten yet? I'll send it to you."
Elder He nodded and said, "I'm so worried. I'm not hungry. Let's go and tell the leader if you have something to do."
From Elder He's speech speed, it is not difficult for Li Yiying to speculate that things must be very important. However, seeing Elder He is so anxious to return to the place where everyone gathers, there is a hint of inconcealed panic. She actually had a ridiculous thought: Elder He seemed to be trying to escape here - yes, it is "escape". As for why the word "escape" was used, even she herself didn't understand. Perhaps, it was just an intuitive description - as for what Elder He was "escape", she couldn't answer.
However, when Elder He was leading and leaving quickly, she turned her head instinctively and glanced quickly into the kitchen. Because of this glance, many years later, she regretted it. A handsome young face appeared in her sight, with a pair of affectionate and melancholy eyes.
Chapter completed!