Chapter 25 The Mountain God Begging For Each Other
The day is long in summer and the night is short in winter and the night is short in winter.
At the turn of Shen and You, the sky was already dark and blurry. Su Yang and Haolong walked for a day, and saw that they were about to arrive in Jiaozhou, but it started snowing in the sky. The sky was cold and the wind was howling. Even Su Yang didn't want to take such a night road, so he chose a temple next to him to stay for the time being.
When Su Yang came to this wild temple, there were already three people in the temple. After entering the door, he saw a main hall in the temple. In this hall was an old man who was about to be the land of the mountain god here. There was no plaque in the temple. Su Yang could only judge this way.
In this hall, a bonfire had already set up, and there was a person sitting in the middle, with a wide body and fat body. In winter, he was bare and exposed his abdomen. His navel was as big as a tea bowl, and his head was black and messy. It should be because of the road. His head was frozen in strands. Even if the hall was warm and the frozen ice was melted, these heads were still fixed.
Next to this wide-body fat man was a scholar, wrapped in a thick cotton coat, and his whole body shrank into a ball. Even beside the bonfire, he was still shaking.
In addition to this scholar, there was also a traveler businessman. Two boxes of things were placed around him, his hands and feet were frozen and cracked, his face was dry and sallow, and he kept breathing next to the fire.
"A few are polite."
Su Yang bowed to the three of them and said, "It's cold and cold. I missed the morning tower and came here to avoid it for a night."
The three people saw Su Yang nodding their heads, and the scholar introduced that, "We are also avoiding this place for the time being to hide from the wind and snow. We can add one more person and add more popularity to this dilapidated temple. It is naturally better."
After all the three of them nodded, they each wrote their own names.
When he arrived here, Su Yang no longer concealed his real name and admitted that he said Su Yang's name. Among these three people, the scholar's surname was Gao and the single name was Lei. His family was from Jiaozhou. He studied abroad and dealt with foreign business. The Chinese New Year is about to celebrate, so he has to go back to Jiaozhou.
The merchant's surname is Duan, and his name is Yimin. His family is from Qingzhou. He does business here in Jiaozhou. He heard that Qingzhou City has suffered disaster and is about to go home now.
The fat man with his chest and belly exposed, his name is Qiao Shuang, and he is a Feng Shui master from Qingzhou. He claimed that he wanted to go to sea and passed by this place. It was because the wind and snow were too strong that he stopped here.
"You're here just right."
Qiao Shuang looked at Su Yang and Haolong and smiled and said, "It's a cold day, and dog meat is the most warm and tonic. The three of us have never stopped here. It's cold and cold, and we are hungry. We don't know what to do, so this dog meat comes."
After saying this, Qiao Shuang only had the black dog Haolong in his eyes.
"Wool wool wool!!!"
Haolong shouted viciously at Qiao Shuang, his eyes were fierce, and he kept waving his tail around Su Yang. His eyes looked at Qiao Shuang were very fierce and disgusted, and he wanted to jump up and bite Qiao Shuang.
"Forget it."
Su Yang closed the temple gate, touched the dog's head, comforted Haolong, looked at Qiao Shuang and the other two, and said, "This dog is spiritual and cannot be killed. I happen to have some meat here..."
Su Yang untied the bag he was with him and took out a rabbit from it. Two pheasants were each. The rabbit pheasant was so fat that it was too ordinary. After seeing this, the three people licked the corners of their mouths and swallowed their saliva.
These rabbits and pheasants were all caught by the black dog Haolong on the road. Su Yang picked up the bag and put them in it. He originally planned to add a meal for Haolong to have a sick meal, but at this time, Su Yang took it out and distributed some of the three people, leaving only one hare for Haolong.
"Right!"
Qiao Shuang looked at Su Yang and said, reaching out to take the rabbit pheasant, looking at the fluff on it, and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go outside to deal with the fur and internal organs." Then he got up and went outside the ruined temple. Su Yang turned his ears and listened to Qiao Shuang breaking the ice water outside, and then heard the sound of a small knife cutting.
“Can there be a house in this temple?”
Su Yang asked Duan Min and Gao Lei that he was new and did not know the structure of the temple.
Gao Lei laughed and said, "Where did the kitchen come from this dilapidated temple? When I first came here, I looked around. There was only a broken water tank outside, which was dirty. If I wanted to drink some water, I washed the water tank and made some of it in the ditch not far away. I could not bear it until late at night, so I would burn some hot water to warm the five internal organs."
Now it can only be regarded as the cold cold just beginning. After the night, after the midnight period, the Chou, the Yin, and the Mao period, it is a time when the cold passes, and the real cold weather is frozen, and the dripping water turns into ice.
"How could he have his chest exposed?"
Su Yang asked.
"That is the disciple of the ancient real man Hao Datong."
Duan Min said to Su Yang: "It's not something that people like us can compare."
Hao Datong, from Huashan School.
Su Yang nodded gently. According to legend, after being appointed as Wang Chongyang, Hao Datong received the Taoist truth secret, and then practiced under the Stone Bridge of Wozhou. He did not seek hunger or thirst, and did not change cold or heat. In this way, after six years, water and fire were reversed, yin and yang were combined, and the nine transformations were achieved.
And the meditation under the bridge is the ability to forget, and it is also the same step as the body and Tao.
Not long after, Qiao Shuang came back from outside, holding the clean pheasant and hare in his hand, and holding the cut wood in his other hand, which could be inserted into the pheasant and hare for barbecue.
"sharp."
Su Yang took the hare and wood, looked at the wood and praised, "What a sharp knife, it was cut into one knife, without a pause in the middle." He looked at Qiao Shuang again and asked, "Why don't you see your knife?"
Qiao Shuang was silent when she heard this, then shook her head, pointed to her stomach, and smiled at Su Yang: "I am a person with swords and swords in my belly, so these swords are naturally in my belly."
Su Yang smiled and stopped asking. He was so concerned about Qiao Shuang that he couldn't see the reality of this person clearly, so he was inevitably more alert. Some sword immortals suddenly rose up in more than a foot of the land, which would lead to a very fatal danger.
After fixing the hare with a wooden insert, Su Yang placed the hare in front of the ignition and smoked it like this. Qiao Shuang, Duan Min and Gao Lei were all the same, and placed the pheasant and hare in their hands in front of the ignition.
Haolong also surrounded Su Yang's knees and stayed by the fire, feeling the coldness.
"well……"
Gao Lei sighed, looked at the wind and snow outside, and said, "I don't know how thick the wind and snow outside this night is. I'm still a hundred miles away from my home, so I'm afraid I can't go back."
This kind of ice and snowy place, lonely and helpless, Gao Lei felt that his clothes were not thick, and his back was already faintly cold in front of the fire, and he was very pessimistic about his future.
Duan Min also lamented after hearing these words, thinking about his home in Qingzhou, but he didn't know whether his home was in trouble or whether he could return to his home.
"How can't you go back?"
Qiao Shuang heard Gao Lei’s pessimistic remarks and said, “As long as you want to go back, I will escort you back. What’s the fear of the snow and ice outside?”
Gao Lei was very grateful to Qiao Shuang when he heard these words from Qiao Shuang and thanked him repeatedly. Qiao Shuang shook his head slightly and said that it was nothing. Then he asked Duan Min. He learned that Duan Min was also going home, and after returning to Qingzhou, he frowned and was willing to escort Duan Min home. Duan Min was also very grateful when he heard the words.
"This place is the junction of Qingzhou and Jiaozhou. The places where these two people go are completely different, not along the way. How do you escort them?"
Su Yang asked Qiao Shuang curiously.
"A small thing."
Qiao Shuang said, "My journey is a long way to go back and forth. It is easy to escort them home, but there is only a difference between them. Tomorrow, I will send Duan Min home first, see the situation at home, and then come back to send you home and let your family reunite."
The Duan Min family in the former was the most concerned about whether it existed or not. Gao Lei's family must be at peace. Just waited for home, and there was no hindrance between them. Gao Lei also understood it very well. The two praised Qiao Shuang's chivalrousness at the intersection.
Hearing the word chivalrous, Qiao Shuang shook his head slightly.
When Su Yang heard this, he nodded and did not want to show off himself in front of Qiao Shuang. He thought that he and Gao Lei could take the way home tomorrow.
The cold air is so intense.
Su Yang looked up at the temple and felt that the cold air was coming from the sky, covering all of this. He looked at Duan Min on the side, his hands and feet were frozen and cracked, leaning against the fire, his hands and feet were painful. If he was a little away, his limbs would become cold. Gao Lei was also a weak scholar, shaking around the fire. Seeing that the fire in the middle became dark, Su Yang leaned down and blew in the fire.
As soon as this blows, the fire in the center lit up. Duan Min and Gao Lei felt the coldness of the everywhere retreated for a while. They were all warm in the temple, and they had no time to think about it. They just thought that the fire in the temple was burning big. The roasted chicken and the roasted rabbit were cooked and they hugged it and ate it. After eating, they were already exhausted and fell asleep on the spot.
Qiao Shuang looked brightly at the side, looking at Su Yang up and down, and then realized that Su Yang has been very different recently.
Su Yang smiled at Qiao Shuang, and the roasted rabbit in his hand was done, so he threw the rabbit to Haolong, and lay next to the fire, yawned, and was not much prepared for Qiao Shuang, so he fell asleep.
"...The Great Thousand Gentou Gate. The true body of the wonderful Tao, the purple gold auspicious appearance. Randomly sent you to your senses and vows are boundless. The Great Sage, Great Compassion, Great Compassion and Great Vow. The ten directions transform, save all sentient beings. In billions of kalpas, they will save countless people..."
The nagging scriptures came into Su Yang's ears. In this temple, Su Yang felt upset and noisy. He raised his head and saw that the bonfire was still there, but there was no Qiao Shuang, Gao Lei, and Duan Min. There was only an old man sitting in the place where the stone statues were originally placed. The appearance was very similar to the stone statues entering the temple.
"What are you chanting?"
Su Yang looked at the old man in the temple and asked.
“The Scripture to Save the Suffer.”
The old man walked down, looked at Su Yang, bowed and said, "This is the scripture that will bring the world apart, and bless the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to sweep away the smoke and dust. Today, the true dragon emperor came to my temple. I naturally have to recite a few words, thank the heaven."
Su Yang frowned, not wanting to be involved in luck again.
"Son of the Emperor, you have to help the little god..."
The mountain god asked Su Yang.
Chapter completed!