Cultivate Taoism and farm to make peace in the world

Chapter 138 Liyuan Listening to Opera, Yujing Wanguo City

The Liyuan in the capital, or the Liyuan on Baiyi Street, is not far from Donglaiju. After getting off Donglaiju, it’s only a 3-minute walk. A Jiangnan garden with white walls and black tiles appeared in front of Jiang Xuan.

Looking at its appearance, Jiang Xuan found that the pear orchard in the capital and the pear orchard under Yinshan Mountain seemed to be carved out of the same mold, but it was just a little bigger.

Just as he was about to step into the garden, two figures suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Xuan:
"Daoist, the pear garden is not open during the day, if you want to listen to music, you can enter the garden at the beginning of the fifth quarter of the unitary hour (6 p.m.)."

Looking at the two guards in front of him who bowed and saluted and spoke to him, Jiang Xuan waved his whisk and said, "The poor are not here to listen to the music, but to find friends."

The two guards looked at each other, and then the slightly stronger guard on the left said:

"I don't know which master Chang Xun is from?"

"Chen Qingyi."

The guard nodded and continued to ask, "Don't know the long name?"

"Shen Xiao faction, Jiang Daoxuan."

As Jiang Xuan's voice fell, the guard bent down again and bowed to Jiang Xuan:
"Please wait a moment, Taoist priest. We have already sent someone to notify Mr. Chen. If Mr. Chen is willing to see you, we will let you go immediately."

Jiang Xuan nodded to express his understanding.

Others are just gatekeepers, and stopping him is doing his duty, so naturally he won't feel any anger.

Not long after, the guard who received the reply suddenly moved away, and then stretched out his hand to guide Jiang Xuan towards the gate:
"Daozhang, everyone Chen has come over, please enter the garden first."

As soon as he finished speaking, a rush of kicking sounds entered Jiang Xuan's ears, followed by a pleasantly surprised cheer:
"Senior Brother Jiang, it's really you."

"It's only December [-]th, you've arrived in the capital so soon."

Following the prestige, Jiang Xuan couldn't help being speechless when he saw Chen Qingyi with a head protruding from the courtyard wall.

The gate is right there, this little girl is really talented if she insists on scraping the wall.

Walking into the pear garden, looking at Chen Qingyi who just came down from the wall, Jiang Xuan laughed and said:

"The door is right there, why do you insist on the wall?"

"My master won't allow it."

"Two days ago, I slipped out and was caught by my master. She said that if I dared to go to the gate again, my feet would be broken."

The little girl leaned towards Jiang Xuan with her hands behind her back, narrowed her eyes and said:
"It doesn't count as walking to the gate if I claw the top of the wall. She has no reason to hit me, right?"

Glancing at Chen Qingyi, whose thoughts were clear and strange, Jiang Xuan just wanted to start teasing, but she opened her mouth again:

"Brother, did you bring me a present when you came to see me this time?"

As she said that, she lowered her head again, playing with her fingers in embarrassment and saying:
"Sister Xu, Sister Yang, and Sister Leng, their friends will bring them many gifts every time they come to Liyuan."

Seeing Chen Qingyi shrinking his neck like a quail while talking, Jiang Xuan suddenly laughed.

what is this?
To be strong all one's life, but unexpectedly like the shy Chen Qingyi?

Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan suddenly thought of teasing, and simply took out a bunch of candy figurines from the jade gourd and handed them out.

This was originally what he planned to bring back to his younger sister Jiang Yao:

"Hey, just a bunch of sugar figurines, do you want it?"

"want."

Snatching the sugar figurine from Jiang Xuan's hand, Chen Qingyi squinted his eyes and began to lick it:

"Uncle Li's candy figurines are delicious. I slipped out to buy candy two days ago and was caught by my master."

Looking at the silly Chen Qingyi shaking his head exuding joy, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but sighed.

I don't know if this little girl can maintain her innocence after entering the big dye vat of Liyuan.

Like rubbing a little fox, he stretched out his hands and rubbed the little girl's head, and then Jiang Xuan released Xue Jing from the demon refining pot:

"Hey, this is my gift to you. As for the sugar figurine, it was originally brought back for my sister to eat."

Seeing a snow-white elf suddenly appearing in front of him, Chen Qingyi, who was eating the candy figurine, suddenly opened his eyes:
"Brother Jiang, is this Xue Jing? Did you really give it to me as a gift?"

Perhaps it was because her eyes were too hot that Xiaoxuejing stepped on her hooves a few times uneasily.

Squatting down and rubbing Xiao Xuejing, who was a bit shy, Jiang Xuan nodded:
"It's really for you."

"I met this snow spirit on the way to the capital. I wouldn't have run into it without you calling me to listen to the music."

"Of course, maybe it is also related to you?"

When he first met Xue Jing, Jiang Xuan also thought about raising him by himself.

But then he found out that this little guy likes to shed his fur, and when he shed, it started snowing in the refining pot, which made him a bit of a Muggle.

Although it will stop as long as it picks up the snow from the ground, but does he still have to find a spirit beast to pick up the fur for him in order to raise a snow spirit?

In addition, Xue Jing was not on the list of 28 constellations, so he thought about it for a long time, and finally planned to give it away.

And Chen Qingyi is his candidate to send Xue Jing.

After all, the bamboo whip that the little girl gave him helped him a lot.

Seeing Jiang Xuan once again said to give Xiaoxuejing to her, Chen Qingyi immediately jumped up holding Xuejing:

"Thank you, Brother Jiang."

After she finished speaking, she looked around, then secretly took out a crystal clear orchid and handed it to Jiang Xuan:
"Hey, this is a gift from me to my brother."

"The last time I was in the Yinshan Liyuan, I found out that senior brother, you seem to like things that can restore your spiritual power, so I asked my master to pay attention."

"This is Snow Spirit Orchid. As long as it is planted, it will emit a fragrance. After smelling the fragrance, you can restore your mental strength."

"It's just that it likes to stay in a cold environment, brother, you should pay attention when you plant it."

"Also, don't sniff too much, or you'll get a headache."

Glancing at the orchid in Chen Qingyi's hand, Jiang Xuan's heart moved slightly, and then he looked at Chen Qingyi.

Seeing that she was still smiling, Jiang Xuan couldn't help showing a smile:
"This orchid is really useful to my senior brother, so thank you to my senior brother."

"Why should I be polite to my junior sister?"

Chen Qingyi patted the airport on his chest, then stuffed Xue Linglan into Jiang Xuan's hand, and then pulled Jiang Xuan to run towards Lan Yuan:

"Brother, let's go to Lanyuan, and I'll sing a song for you."

"But if you sing something wrong, you have to point it out to me. Otherwise, if I sing wrong on the stage, my master will definitely put me in confinement."

"But I don't know opera."

"It's okay, you will know after listening to senior brother."

The sound of the pear garden is absolutely perfect, and there is a lingering sound around the beams.

When Chen Qingyi reluctantly left the stage, the city walls of Bai Yujing had once again glowed with fluorescence.

At the beginning of the third quarter of the hour of the Liyuan (7:30 p.m.), the stage will be set up for singing, and the garden will be opened at the beginning of the fifth quarter of the unitary time (6 p.m.), so Chen Qingyi has to leave the stage before the third quarter of the unitary time.

Looking at the reluctant Chen Qingyi, Jiang Xuan straightened the tiara on her head:

"Good singing."

"But it's time for you to rest, your face is so pale."

Hearing Jiang Xuan's praise, the pale Chen Qingyi immediately lit up his eyes:

"Really? Brother Jiang, don't lie to me."

She really likes to sing.

"I'm not lying, I really sang well."

Jiang Xuan did not lie.

For a whole afternoon, Chen Qingyi sang five operas to him, "The Drunken Concubine", "Farewell My Concubine", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "The Match of the Immortals", and "The Female Consort". vision.

The singing at this time is a fascinating one.

Chen Qingyi sang "The Drunken Concubine" on the stage, Jiang Xuan seemed to have really seen Concubine Yang Guifei drunk in the Yuhuachi in the heyday of Tang Dynasty.

She sang "Farewell My Concubine" on the stage, and Jiang Xuan also saw the bank of the Wujiang River off the stage, the Overlord bid farewell to Concubine Yu, and smiled at the thousands of Han troops alone.

When she sang "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", in addition to letting people personally see the famous and beautiful love that has been passed down through the ages, there were also two spirit butterflies flying from outside the garden and landing on Chen Qingyi for a long time. unwilling to leave.

After one afternoon, Chen Qingyi sang about exhaustion, but Jiang Xuan felt that his mental power had improved a little.

Although not much, it has increased by a negligible trace, but in the end it has improved.

This also shows that Chen Qingyi's opera is really getting started.

And Chen Qingyi got Jiang Xuan's affirmation, and immediately showed a silly smile.

After laughing for a while, she suddenly thought of something, rolled her eyes and stuffed Xiaoxuejing into Jiang Xuan's arms:
"Senior Brother Jiang, I'll take off my makeup first, and I'll take you to the night market later."

After saying that, she lifted her little feet and slipped away.

But soon, in just a few minutes, she shrugged her head and returned to Jiang Xuan's side pitifully, and stretched out her arms to hug Xiao Xuejing back.

"Brother Jiang, my master won't let me go out."

As soon as Chen Qingyi finished speaking, a nun from Liyuan appeared behind her in a costume:

"Don't pretend to be pitiful with your senior brother."

First she scolded Chen Qingyi, then the female cultivator turned her attention to Jiang Xuan, and said with some embarrassment:

"Nephew Jiang, Xiao Qing'er will be performing on stage in a few days. Recently, she is asked to practice during the day and watch us sing at night. By the way, I will explain some precautions to her when watching us sing on stage. "

"So before she goes on stage to sing, she may not have time to go shopping with you in the capital."

Jiang Xuan nodded slightly to express his understanding:

"Fifteen minutes on stage, ten years off stage, my nephew knows this."

Having said that, Jiang Xuan rubbed Chen Qingyi's head:
"Learn the music well, senior brother is waiting for you to shine brightly on stage and become famous in the capital."

After saying that, he withdrew his hand and bowed to the nun:
"Uncle Yang, then the nephew will not bother you for now."

Before Yang Yueming could speak, Chen Qingyi rushed in front of her and said:

"Then senior brother, you will come to listen to my singing tomorrow afternoon, right?"

Seeing Chen Qingyi whose eyes were full of prayers, Jiang Xuan nodded immediately:

"I'll come to Liyuan after lunch tomorrow."

Hearing Jiang Xuan's words, Chen Qingyi immediately became happy:
"Don't go out to eat, junior sister, I will cook for you myself."

"Okay, then tomorrow we'll see your skills."

Smiling again, he patted Chen Qingyi's head. Jiang Xuan then said goodbye to the two of them, turned around and left the troupe.

But after he left the troupe, he was momentarily at a loss.

"Where are you going next?"

"Go to the legendary Zuixianlou to taste the drunken wine, or go to the Odd Object Building to pick up the leaks, or go to the Xianlou to see the demeanor of those so-called Tianjiao?"

While thinking, Jiang Xuan called out Yu Chi to ride up, and then patted its neck:
"Go to Wan Guo City in the south."

You can go to the twelfth floor at any time, but what makes him most curious now is the foreign countries in this world.

Obviously, the city of all nations is the place where the envoys from foreign countries lived.
Although Wan Guo is a false finger, the number of foreign countries in Wan Guo City is not less than a few hundred.

"I don't know what the Ten Thousand Kingdoms look like, and how far Western technology has developed."

While thinking about it, he rode the jade chi to the heavenly road all the way south, and the closer he got to the south, the deeper the emotion in Jiang Xuan's eyes.

In Jiang Xuan's eyes, the south and east of Yujing City are like two eras.

Pedestrians in the east carry their hands on their shoulders, and mules pull their carts.

But to the east, modern products such as four-wheel vehicles, buses, and bicycles suddenly increased.

After arriving outside the walls of Wan Guo City, Jiang Xuan, who was riding a jade chi, looked even more unique.

But being a maverick is a maverick, riding a spirit beast and wearing a divine robe, in the eyes of those foreigners, he becomes a fragrant bun.

Looking at the foreigner looking at him with shining eyes at the other end of the city gate, Jiang Xuan smiled secretly and stepped into the city gate on horseback.

There is a rule in Ming Dynasty that foreigners are not allowed to leave Wanguo City without permission.

It is not only afraid that these foreigners will cause trouble, but also afraid that these foreigners will be deceived by evil cultivators.

Of course, the ordinary people of Ming Dynasty are not allowed to enter Wan Guo City, and they are also afraid that the people will fall into the hands of these foreigners.

After all, foreigners can also cultivate, and some people even have good cultivation talents, but they just don't have inheritance.

The exercises they practice are more like the products of castration and extremeization of evil cultivation techniques.

The highest one can only cultivate to the level of mana and spirit accumulation, not to mention, it is easy to change one's own cognition after a long time of practice, besides, there are various big and small problems.

So since more than a hundred years ago, in order to obtain a complete copy of the exercises, they sent the so-called holy sons, holy daughters, princes and daughters to kneel and kowtow every day in front of the sect.

It's a pity that the people of Ming Dynasty have a different heart for people who are not of our race, so they basically don't bother to pay attention to them.

Of course, it is not that no one pities them.

But those who pity them are the group of bald men in the west and the group of evil cultivators in the north.

When these little-sighted aliens set foot on the vast land of China, the bald man and the evil cultivator had already set their sights on them.

When these alien races set foot on the Buddhist land in the west and the Ming land in the north to ask for a chance, they became sheep and cows in the eyes of both.

Traveling westward, Buddhism turned a large expanse of foreign land into a Buddhist land, and the aborigines on it became cows that produced the power of faith, and they knew Amitabha Buddha all day long.

The evil cultivator crosses the sea, hides behind the royal families of various countries to control wars, and treats foreigners as wool-producing sheep.

Harvest the emotions and then cut the body, and even the soul will not be spared after the body is cut.

If Xie Xiu and Buddhism were not going to lose control in the end, and the Zhu family of the royal family joined hands with other families to set the rules, the outside world would have no idea what Huo Huocheng was like.

In addition, Daming people always look down on foreigners from top to bottom, so there are very few monks who come to Wan Guo City.

Now that they saw Jiang Xuan in the Taoist robe of Shenxiao, it was no surprise that their eyes lit up.

While thinking, he rode a jade chi and passed through the door opening in the wall. Those foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes, black hair and black eyes, or red hair and blue eyes immediately surrounded him, and spoke fluent Ming Mandarin.

"Master, I am Edward, the son of the Duke of Britain. Please allow me to introduce myself."

"My lord, I am Hera, the princess of Magyar. I admire the cultivation world of the Ming Dynasty very much. I wonder if I can worship you as my teacher. I am willing to do everything a woman can do for you."

"Master Dao, I am Stella, the ambassador of the French Republic. We in France welcome you to settle in our country. For this reason, we have prepared thousands of virgins and tens of thousands of acres of land waiting for your visit."

Hearing the noise in his ear, looking at the foreigners who tried their best to show off himself but were three meters away from him, Jiang Xuan raised his eyebrows and pointed to the French ambassador named Stella .

"Come with me, the rest of you are gone."

After the voice fell, more than half of the people dispersed immediately, but there were still a few who did not give up and took a step forward, wanting to continue to sell themselves.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Xuan raised his eyebrows and stretched out his hand.

The next moment, several thunderbolts fell on those who stayed behind.

The people left behind are all similar to warriors, and their strength is equivalent to the blood exchange state, which is the innate state of Taoism.

However, although their realm is the same as Jiang Xuan's, their skills are lacking. Jiang Xuan is not an ordinary Xiantian realm, and his lightning method is extremely ferocious.

So they just knelt down.

Of course, Jiang Xuan wouldn't kill people directly, he couldn't do that.

He just dissipated the blood from their bodies and made them unable to move for several hours.

Glancing at Stella who took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, Jiang Xuan thought for a while before getting off the jade chi and walked to his side:

"Find a car to take me around this city of nations."

Here, Jiang Xuan got into a classic car hired by Stella, and the news that he had entered Wanguo City spread along with it.

And the first to get the news was his uncle Dai Jiuquan.

Sitting on the futon and looking at the information he got, Dai Jiuquan just looked at his personal disciple in front of him and smiled:

"This kid's going to Wan Guo City is not what I expected."

"There aren't many so-called scientific creations in Sixi County. After going out for a while and seeing these things, I will naturally be curious."

"The foreigners in the capital are all in Wan Guo City, so it's normal for him to go to that place."

He Shouyuan, who was standing in front of him, frowned:
"Does Daoxuan pay too much attention to strange and obscene skills?"

"He has practiced the "Tai Chi Heart Sutra" and can observe spiritual things. Shouldn't he go to the Pavilion of Strange Objects first? If you pay so much attention to these strange and obscene skills, don't lose sight of the basics."

When Dai Jiuquan heard the words, he showed a solemn look:
"Those things are not some kind of obscene skills."

"Moving without sails, a large steel ship that can sail quickly without manpower."

"It can be controlled by ordinary people and use its power to fly high-altitude aircraft."

"Only one wire is needed to allow two ordinary people to talk over a long distance."

"A TV with sound that can project voices without mana, phonograms, or gramophones."

"A camera that can be used to store images."

"It can cause fatal damage to ordinary people from a few hundred meters away, and it can even injure the firearms of monks who have entered the Dao realm."

"Gunpowder shells that can pose a threat to some blood-changing and innate realm warriors."

"All kinds of so-called technological creations created by mortals can indeed be called miracles."

"According to your master's deduction, these technological creations also have an extraordinary future, and they can even be combined with Taoism, so that Taoism has a brighter future."

"So, don't look at all new things with a conservative eye, even if they are not strong enough now, even if we can destroy them with a single thought."

"Change another angle, look at them from the perspective of ordinary people, and you will find different wonderful things."

"Science is a miracle for mortals."

"If we want to go further, we need to study every emerging thing, instead of subconsciously rejecting it because of its weakness."

Speaking of this, Dai Jiuquan smiled again:
"If great things can be accomplished, I don't mind learning this so-called technology as a teacher."

(End of this chapter)