In a small town more than ten miles away from the imperial capital Chang'an, Fang Jie and Big Dog spent their free time squatting on a tree branch by the roadside. Look at the majestic Imperial City in the distance and tell some random jokes. They squatted in the tree and watched the scenery, and every time at this time, Shen Qingshan regarded the two of them as scenery.
A pretty little girl pointed at Da Quan and Fang Jie and asked Shen Qingshan: "Auntie, who are those two people and why are they squatting on the tree branch?"
Shen Qingshan gently pinched the little girl's delicate face and told her seriously: "Those are two birdmen."
The little girl obviously didn¡¯t know what a birdman was, so she asked where the wings were hidden. Shen Qingshan smiled and said that they were both birdmen who could fly without wings, which was very powerful. The little girl asked her aunt if she could fly. Shen Qingshan thought for a moment and said yes, and then disappeared without a trace.
The little girl was startled, screamed, turned around and ran away.
Fang Jie looked at Shen Qingshan who quietly showed his head from behind a big tree and looked at the back of the little girl running away with a smile on her lips. He suddenly felt that this woman had not seen through it at all. When they were together before, he thought he knew Shen Qingshan's character, but three and a half years later, he thought Shen Qingshan hadn't changed at all. But now, he felt in a daze that none of the Shen Qing fans he saw were the real Shen Qing fans.
Or maybe, they are all real Shen Qingfan.
"How many sides do you have?"
He murmured something.
Da Quan thought Fang Jie was talking about him, and after thinking about it carefully, he answered uncertainly: "Both sides?"
Fang Jie couldn¡¯t help but laugh, and then asked: ¡°Which two sides?¡±
When he asked, Daquan didn¡¯t know whether the answer he thought was correct, so he cautiously asked: "Front and back?"
Fang Jie laughed heartily, with a calm expression on his face.
The big dog scratched his messy hair in embarrassment, and suddenly pointed to the south of the official road with a sharp look in his eyes and said in a deep voice: "It seems that a big shot has arrived."
Hundreds of riders
The Taoist robe is belted and has a high crown.
Three or two big red carriages were in the middle, coming slowly.
Fang Jie narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but sigh in a low voice, "He is indeed a big shot."
Shen Qingshan, who was standing under a big tree, jumped up to Fang Jie. He sat down on the tree branch without being a lady at all and pointed at the mighty group of people and said, "A group of stinky Taoist priests is nothing to worry about." , but there are two old Taoist priests in the carriage who are very scary. One is very capable and can scare people to death, while the other is completely bottomless. "
She turned to look at Fang Jie and said, "Of course, you may be more interested in another person."
At this moment, Fang Jie discovered a few familiar figures in the group of hundreds of people. So he was a little distracted, and when he looked at those people, he felt like he was in another world. The person following a carriage was not a Taoist priest, nor was it the court official who greeted them.
A strong man over two meters tall and a thin man with a pair of cymbals hanging from his waist. A middle-aged man with a copper rod tied to his back, and an assassin dressed in black with his mouth and nose covered in broad daylight.
Qilin, horizontal stick, iron slave, night owl.
There should have been another Shen Qingshan in that team, but now Shen Qingshan is sitting next to Fang Jie. She held the branch of the tree with both hands and her feet were swinging back and forth in the air. With Shen Qingshan like this, people suddenly realized that her age was actually far less mature than she seemed to be.
The big dog said seriously: "I haven't seen you for three and a half years, it's worth a drink."
Fang Jie rubbed his nose. Perhaps his legs were numb from squatting, so he sat down on a tree branch. He looked at the group of hundreds of people and stared at one of the carriages and suddenly smiled to himself.
"He's really a waste, but he's really a genius."
He asked Shen Qingshan: "If you were the person behind my scenes, wouldn't you think it would be better to take that fake one back? What did you do back then? You could steal someone who was more powerful than me." Awesomeand now he is regarded as Master Xiao's disciple, won't he be even more powerful in the future?"
"You can go down and stop the carriage."
Shen Qingshan smiled and said, "She has always wanted to see you."
Fang Jie took out the cigarette pouch from the deerskin pocket at his waist and lit it. He took a puff and curled his lips and said, "She wants to see me not because I'm handsome. I can imagine how big the resentment that has been accumulated for three and a half years is with my butt." You can guess it. If that resentment can be turned into a murderous weapon., can twist me into a puddle of mud even from thousands of miles away. "
"What did you say her name was?"
"Mo Ningzhi"
"It sounds nice, isn't it beautiful?"
"very beautiful"
"Then I have to be even more careful. If I see her in the future, I will never say anything with her tail between her legs. She is absolutely beautiful, and she is also a damn genius. Moreover, she was accepted as a disciple by the leader of the Dao Sect of the Sui Dynasty. Ten years later, everyone is afraid of her. Are you afraid of a ninth-level master? Will you let me live?"
Shen Qingfan smiled and was speechless.
The young man sitting on the branch of a tree with a pipe in his mouth and squinted eyes looked weirdlike a monster.
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The officials from the Ministry of Rites responsible for welcoming Master Xiao from Qingle Mountain were waiting early at the farewell pavilion thirty miles away in Nancheng. These officials were not of high rank. The oldest official was only a fifth-rank Yuanwailang, but you should know that there were not many people in the world who could work thirty miles from the city to meet the officials of the Sui Dynasty Rites Department.
When Emperor Murong Shao of Nanyan came to the capital of Sui Dynasty in person to deliver his surrender, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were just waiting at the gate of Chang'an City.
In the words of an official of the Ministry of Rites, although Zhenren Xiao is not a big shot, he is a face of the Sui Dynasty, so the people of the Ministry of Rites have to be careful. There was a Buddhist sect in the Mongolian and Yuan Empire, and there was King Dalun Ming of Dalun Temple in Daxue Mountain. So His Majesty the Emperor allowed the Sui Dynasty to have Dao Zong and Qing Leshan Yi Guan Xiao Zhenren. This is a flag erected by His Majesty the Sui Emperor himself. How dare the officials of the Ministry of Rites not raise it higher?
¡°And this time, the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty personally issued an order to invite Zhenren Xiao to watch the ceremony and perform the martial arts examination. It was an invitation rather than a conscription, and His Majesty was so strict in his words. How could the officials below dare not take it seriously?
For Mr. Xiao, the officials of the Ministry of Rites really have some respect.
"Your Majesty wants to establish a sect, and it cannot be established by just appointing a person. Although the allusion about the peach blossoms blooming and the peaches ripening overnight in Qingle Mountain is not known to be true or false, it is a miracle if it can deceive most people. If it were anyone else, he really wouldn't have this method.
In the morning, Fang Jie and Da Quan watched the officials from the Ministry of Rites pass by. Now they saw them slowly coming back beside a carriage. Fang Jie couldn't help but praise: "This is what a Taoist leader should have." Jiao, a few fifth- and sixth-grade clerks are really not qualified to get on his carriage."
The big dog curled his lips: "Did you know that even the Great Khan of the Mongolian Yuan Empire had to bow three times and kowtow all the way up to the Dalun Temple? King Dalun Ming can make him an emperor by pointing at one person, and he can become an emperor by pointing at him again. Being able to transform him back into an ordinary person would be a real status. Master Xiao's arrogance is still inferior to that of Maharaja Maharaja. , People and officials can kneel all over the grassland along the way!"
Shen Qingshan said disapprovingly: "That's because the Buddhist sect has been established for a long time. If the Tao sect can persist for hundreds of years, then the leader of the Tao sect a few hundred years from now will be criticized like Maharaja Maharaja if he travels." People kneel down and worship him in the streets, and they can casually call one person the emperor, supreme over any imperial authority in the mortal world.¡±
"Won't"
Fang Jie shook his head and said: "As long as the Great Sui Dynasty does not fall, the Dao Sect will never have such a glorious day. Unless the Dao Sect moves the sect outside the Great Sui Dynasty, and grabs a piece of the country from the Buddha Sect to make it its own foundation.¡±
Shen Qingshan was startled, and then nodded: "Yes I was wrong. The emperor of the Sui Dynasty was too powerful. He would never allow anyone in his empire to be more influential than himself. Like the Mongolian and Yuan Empire, the emperor It also requires the appointment of King Dalun Ming, and I am afraid that it will not happen in the Sui Dynasty for many more years. "
"Imperial power cannot be separated from divine power."
Fang Jie smiled and said: "Because the emperor wants to count on the magicians to deceive the people for him. But unless the emperor is a loser he will never allow divine power to override imperial power."
The big dog suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Sometimes the emperor may face the tragic situation of destroying his country if he is not useless."
These words did not fit in with the previous conversation, and I don¡¯t know why he said it.
Fang Jie glanced at him, thoughtfully.
The large group of people on the official road are getting closer and closer, and the scene seems to be getting bigger and bigger.
When the big red carriage at the front reached the edge of the town, the curtains were raised, and a middle-aged Taoist with sword-shaped eyebrows and a high nose could be seen sitting cross-legged inside. Different from the attire of other Taoists, this Taoist wore a bright red brocade robe embroidered with gold thread and with very complicated patterns. He sat upright in the carriage, closed his eyes, made the seals with his hands and placed them on his knees. He looks very imposing, especially the little bit of vermilion on his forehead that is most eye-catching.
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Looking at it from a distance, it was as if a third eye had opened on his forehead. The vermilion mark, which was about the same size as a peach core, looked like an upright red eye. The color was so bright that it was even brighter than the red robe he was wearing, so it was particularly eye-catching.
Although it was a bit far away, Fang Jie suddenly felt depressed after taking a closer look.
"Don't look."
Shen Qingshan lowered his voice and reminded: "The mark on the old Taoist's forehead is a bit strange. Even I almost lost my mind the last time I saw him."
Fang Jie frowned slightly and asked, "He is the old Taoist with ridiculously high cultivation level you mentioned? He doesn't look very old either."
Shen Qingshan nodded and said: "This red-robed priest is called Taoist Heji, and he is in charge of punishment in the Dao Sect. Although his cultivation level is scary, in my opinion, even if I can't defeat him, I might still be able to escape because I can see He's tall, but the old Taoist in the second carriage behind is really scary, because I can't tell how tall he is."
The person who can make Shen Qingshan feel scared may be the one who is really scary.
At this moment, the team outside the town suddenly stopped. Many people in the town gathered around to watch, and most of them were whispering. For Daozong, the people actually don't understand it very well. Emperor Tianyou of the Sui Dynasty strongly promoted Taoism. Because Qingle Mountain is in the south of the Yangtze River, there are already many Taoism believers among the people in Jiangnan. In Hebei, Gyeonggi and other places, people are still a little unfamiliar with Daozong, and even reject it.
It is actually not easy to get a group of people who have never believed in something to believe in something.
Seeing that many people were surrounding him, a disciple wearing a dark green Taoist robe walked up to the crowd and began to preach morality. When anyone asked questions, he answered them with a smile.
"There are no gods living in the sky, because the sky itself is the greatest god."
The Taoist smiled and said kindly: "Time and all things are given by God. Man's destiny is also determined by God. The reason why His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty is called the Son of Heaven is because He is really the child of God. What Your Majesty said, It represents God¡¯s will. Why can¡¯t your Majesty¡¯s words be violated? Because God¡¯s will cannot be violated.¡±
Hearing these words, Fang Jie couldn't help but smile and whispered: "These Taoists are doing their duty very well. They must have done a lot of publicity for His Majesty the Sui Emperor along the way."
The people listened attentively, and people asked questions from time to time. But at this moment, a running bull suddenly burst out of the woods. It didn't know how frightened it was, but it rushed towards the crowd. The owner of the bull chased after it, constantly shouting for people to get away.
Seeing that the running bull was about to crash into the crowd, the red-robed priest who had been sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes and slowly raised his hand to point in the direction of the running bull.
One finger.
The ground subsides.
"The official road, which was as hard as blue bricks, suddenly collapsed into a large pit. The running bull had no time to stop its steps and fell into it. With a cry, the cow broke no one knows how many bones it had. It was struggling at the bottom of the pit, but it couldn't stand up like it was tangled in a net.
¡°I-fuck!¡±
Fang Jie, who was sitting on the branch of a tree, immediately opened his eyes wide, and then said in a very unsatisfied way: "This is too much pretense!"