Chapter 527 "The Book of Tea"
After resting for about half an hour, I recovered a little bit of strength and was about to go home. Although I was very nervous at first that night, I was completely in a formality afterwards, and even those female ghosts did not appear. I felt a little disappointed.
At this moment, I vaguely heard the sound of walking in the mountain village, and instantly became energetic. I hid behind the stilt house and saw that there was a figure of Taoist walking sneakily in the mountain village.
This man appeared here in the middle of the night in the dark, so he designated any conspiracy!
As he got closer and closer, I couldn't wait to follow him. After following him for a while, he seemed to feel something and looked back strangely.
I hurriedly hid aside and waited for him to catch up when he continued to move forward. This move really worked. He looked back several times in the middle, but couldn't find me.
Finally, the man stayed in front of the last stilt building and squatted on the ground. My heart suddenly rose to my throat, thinking that it had been discovered. Unexpectedly, he didn't look here at all, but instead digging the soil with his butt sticking out.
Due to vision impairment, I couldn't see clearly what he was doing. I only knew that after he scattered for a while, he disappeared. I thought there should be an authentic tunnel hidden there.
I was about to come up to see what happened, but my heart twitched for no reason, and then my body began to feel weak. This was a sign that the Tiangang Formation was effective, but I didn't expect that there was actually a Yin spirit who dared to break into the Tiangang Formation!
I cursed inwardly, and had to give up the hard-earned clues and prepare to go back to save Lu Ming. As a result, the twitching feeling disappeared before I could leave, and then my body became more relaxed than before.
This shows that my guess is correct. It is the old ghost who helped Lu Ming get rid of the siege of female ghosts!
At first I was about to take the risk of jumping off a cliff in my dream, but the old man hooked my legs tightly with a cane. At that time, I thought he wanted to harm me.
After Lu Ming told me about his experience of being trapped in the mountain village, I suddenly felt that the person who saved him was the old man ghost, and the voice he said in his heart disappeared from time to time. Maybe my umbrella and medium talisman caused harm to the old man.
So when I saw the crack on the teapot, I realized that the reason why the old ghost man pulled me might be to save me!
The Tiangang Formation just now worked, and then the feeling of oppression disappeared. In fact, it was not that there was a dirty thing hitting the magic array, but that a ghost tried to rush out.
The only ghost in that room is the old ghost!
After clarifying the relationship between these things, I felt a sense of intimacy with the old man ghost from the bottom of my heart. I no longer regarded him as an opponent in my subconscious, but a kind elder.
I think he had no intention of hurting Lu Ming from the beginning. It was probably because Lu Ming did something wrong to offend the old man.
We found the wrong direction from the beginning. The real enemy was not the old ghost, but the guy who got into the stilt house!
Thinking of this, I suddenly became nervous. Since the old ghost is his own person, it must have suddenly rushed out of the Tiangang Formation to save me, which means I am in danger!
I immediately thought of retreating, but I was a little unwilling to accept it. After weighing it, I decided to continue observing. The old man was so fast that he would definitely arrive in time. I immediately pulled out the Tianlang whip and crawled in along the tunnel entrance.
After jumping out of the tunnel, I quickly looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't help but open my mouth. This place turned out to be a tea shop!
The tables, chairs and benches are arranged evenly, and tea bowls are even placed on many tables. There is a desk near the wall with a thick account book on it, but the guy who came in just now disappeared.
I was not familiar with this place, so I didn't continue chasing it. I quickly walked to the desk and opened the account book. I found that it was densely covered with ancient words that I couldn't understand.
However, there are many illustrations of tea on it. It seems that it is a tea book. I was a little discouraged and flipped back casually. Inadvertently, I saw the portrait of the ghost old man from above!
I was immediately confused. Judging from the clues I have at present, the person who brought me in wanted to harm us, and the old ghost wanted to save us, so there was a hostile relationship between them. Why did the mastermind behind the scenes still collect the portrait of the old ghost?
Since I couldn't understand the text, I had to change one and found that this book also recorded a lot of knowledge related to tea. Finally, there was also a portrait of an old man from ghost.
At this time, a slight sound of footsteps came from the depths of the tunnel. It seemed that the person was about to come out. I became nervous and opened the third book in panic. I was surprised to find that this book was a traditional Chinese character that I could understand!
The first page is the two big words "Tea Classic". The main text part generally talks about how to cook tea, how to taste tea, and some short stories related to tea culture.
When I saw this, I suddenly realized something and turned to the last page. I suddenly saw the portrait of the old ghost man, tea saint Lu Yu, written under!
Lu Yu! Lu Yu!
My hands trembled unconsciously. This old man turned out to be the author of "Tea Classic", Lu Yu, known as the Chinese tea saint!
No wonder he can attach himself to Lu Ming during the day, no wonder he is so powerful that his yin energy is very light.
He was not a ghost at all, but an immortal.
Lu Yu was a famous figure in the Tang Dynasty. He was obsessed with tea ceremony throughout his life and traveled all over the country, just to try the mountain springs in various places and what the tea tasted from tea leaves in various places. Finally, he wrote the world's first tea monograph, "Tea Classic", which is recognized by the world as the Tea Saint.
It is said that Lu Yu's good friend, Monk Jigong, is also a person who likes tea ceremony. Not only can he identify what kind of tea he drinks, but he can also distinguish the water used to make tea. This kind of tea tasting ability was spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and finally spread to Emperor Daizong of Tang Dynasty.
After hearing this rumor, Emperor Daizong of Tang was half-believing and half-doubted, so he issued an order to attract the monk Jigong and decided to be an interviewer!
As soon as the monk Jigong arrived in the palace, the emperor ordered the eunuch to make tea, brew a bowl of high-quality tea, and give it to monk Jigong to taste. After Jigong thanked him, he took the tea in his hand, took a sip, then put down the tea bowl, and never took a second sip of tea.
Emperor Daizong of Tang asked him why he didn't drink it anymore? Monk Jigong smiled and said, "The tea I drink is cooked by Lu Yu himself. If you get used to drinking the tea he cooked, and then drinking the tea that others cooked, you will feel as indifferent as water."
After hearing this, Emperor Daizong of Tang asked Lu Yu where he is now? Monk Jigong replied: "Lu Yu loves nature, travels all over the country, evaluating famous mountains and rivers, and evaluating the world's famous tea and sesame springs. It is hard to know where I am now."
So Emperor Daizong of Tang ordered the guards to ride on fast horses and search for Lu Yu everywhere. After a week, he finally found him in Zhejiang. He immediately invited Lu Yu into the palace. Emperor Daizong of Tang Dynasty saw that although Lu Yu was stuttering, he was fairy-like and knowledgeable, and liked him very much. So he asked Lu Yu to taste the tea on site to see if he was as magical as the legend?
Lu Yu agreed happily, so he took out the tea he had picked before Qingming Festival, cooked it with spring water, and presented it to the emperor. Emperor Daizong of Tang took the tea bowl, gently opened the lid of the bowl, and a fragrance came towards him. He looked at the light green and clear tea in the bowl, which was simply the best in the world, and nodded repeatedly to praise the good tea. Then he brought another bowl and asked the palace maid to give it to the monk Jigong in the imperial study room to taste. The monk Jigong asked in surprise after taking a sip: "Hey, Lu Yu is here in the palace too?"
The emperor was shocked and asked Mr. Jigong how he knew that Lu Yu was coming? Mr. Jigong laughed and said, "Only Lu Yu can fry such tea. This is no longer the tea on earth, but the tea in the fairyland."
Emperor Daizong of Tang admired Lu Yu's tea ceremony skills very much and wanted to keep him in the palace to serve him. However, Lu Yu was not greedy for wealth and glory, so he soon led his horse and continued to wander around the world, focusing on writing the "Tea Sutra".
I think Lu Ming is probably a descendant of Lu Yu, but Lu Ming did something wrong and angered his ancestors, so Lu Yu came out to teach him a lesson.
This explains why Lu Yu always appears in Lu Mingmeng and knocks his head with a crutch...
To take a step back, even if Lu Ming is not a descendant of Lu Yu, as a tea merchant, he must have some understanding of Lu Yu and will definitely recognize Lu Yu. But he has never mentioned this to me until now, and he is still hiding it from me!
Recalling the fact that Lu Ming called me from behind before leaving, and he was reluctant to speak, I realized that he might have wanted to tell me the truth. But I thought he was embarrassed and left before he could finish speaking.
Since Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" is placed here, I think the women who died in the stilt house should also have a close relationship with Lu Yu.
Chapter completed!