And said you're not a fairy

Chapter 167 To Aoshan

"Chen Yuan, where are you going?"

After breakfast, seeing Chen Yuan dressed neatly, looking ready to go out, with a sword box on his back, Xue Niang asked Chen Yuan.

"I have something to do and I'm going out for a few days. Do you and Xiao Huang want to go with me?"

Chen Yuan asked Xue Niang.

"Of course."

Xue Niang said without thinking.

"Okay, if that's the case, then you and Xiao Huang can come with me."

Chen Yuan also agreed smoothly.

Xueniang and Xiaohuang had been with him for a while, and Chen Yuan found that Xueniang and the little yellow dog were quite clingy.

It doesn't matter if you leave for a short time. This time, if you leave for a long time and you don't take them with you, they will definitely be very unhappy.

Wang Wang!

Hearing that Chen Yuan was willing to take them with him, Xiao Huang cried out happily.

"Tell me in advance that if you want to go, I won't take you with me. You have to follow behind by yourself. If you don't want to hurry, you don't have to go."

Then Chen Yuan reminded Xue Niang and Xiao Huangdao.

Wang Wang!

The little yellow dog continued to bark.

But Xue Niang walked up to Xiao Huang, and somehow persuaded Xiao Huang, and she rode on Xiao Huang's back not long after.

Chen Yuan shook his head and ignored Xue Niang and Xiao Huang.

When Chen Yuan walked out of his yard, he happened to see Yan Lanfang and Lu Xiaoqiu's mother and daughter who were saluting, as well as the salamander of the boat boss who hadn't seen for many days.

"Daozhang, are you ready to go out?"

Seeing Chen Yuan followed by a dog and a mouse, with a sword box on his back, ready to go out, Yan Lanfang greeted Chen Yuan.

"Taoist Master, I didn't expect that we would be so destined. After many days, we actually met again."

When the boat boss Dafeng Salamander saw Chen Yuan, he also greeted Chen Yuan happily.

"Congratulations to the two of you. You two are in love with each other. It seems that it won't be long before you will drink the wedding wine of the two of you."

Chen Yuan said to Yan Lanfang and Feng Shao.

Yan Lanfang's mother and daughter were wearing salutes, and the salamander appeared here again, apparently to pick up Yan Lanfang's mother and daughter from Qingyang Temple.

I didn't realize it when we met last time, but this time I saw the boss of the boat, the salamander, and looked at the friendship in Yan Lanfang's eyes, even Chen Yuan, an outsider, could feel it.

"What did the Taoist priest say? Brother Yan just came to pick up our mother and daughter and go back to our hometown."

Hearing what Chen Yuan said, Yan Lanfang felt a little embarrassed.

"The Taoist priest came just in time. We were going to visit the Taoist priest and bid farewell to the Taoist priest. Thanks to the Taoist priest's help these days, otherwise our mother and son would not even have a shelter, and I am afraid that we would have to live on the streets."

Then Yan Lanfang said again.

"It's okay, you mother and daughter have been staying in Qingyang Temple, a place for Taoist priests to practice, and it's not a solution. It's good for you to go back to your hometown and live an ordinary life."

Chen Yuan nodded.

Although this Qingyang temple is good, it is not a place for the mother and daughter to stay for a long time. Chen Yuan will probably leave here soon.

"The Taoist priest's kindness to our mother and daughter is so great that we have nothing to repay in this life. We only hope that the Taoist priest can succeed in immortality in the future. We will enshrine the longevity tablet for the Taoist priest at home and pray for the Taoist priest day and night."

Then Yan Lanfang said grateful again.

"This boat boss is a person worthy of entrustment for life. The friendship shown in his eyes does not seem to be false. If you are destined to get married in the future, I hope you will have a good relationship for a hundred years and grow old together."

Chen Yuan said to Yan Lanfang again.

"Brother Feng is a good husband. He has never been married, but I am a divorced person..."

Yan Lanfang's expression darkened at Chen Yuan's words.

"If his friendship for you is true, he shouldn't dislike you."

Chen Yuan shook his head and said.

He is under twenty years old. As a Taoist, although he does not understand love in the human world, he also knows that if a man and a woman truly like each other, they should not care about each other's past and family background.

Only if we don't like each other will we find fault with each other.

After exchanging pleasantries with Yan Lanfang's family for a while, Chen Yuan said goodbye and left, preparing to continue to Aoshan.

But this time he went to the stables in the side yard and took his donkey. He had just left Qingyang Temple and walked to the archway in front of Qingyang Temple. Before he could ride the donkey on the road, he met a man who was in a hurry and rushed back to the Taoist temple from outside. Changchun Taoist.

"Daozhang, you want to go out?"

Seeing that Chen Yuan was leading the gray donkey, carrying the sword box on his back, followed by a dog and a mouse, he looked a little surprised.

"I have something to go to Aoshan, and I will return in a few days."

Chen Yuan stopped and said to Changchun Taoist.

"Master Daoist, what you asked the old Taoist to inquire about before, just happened to have some clues, and the old Taoist even said that he would take you to have a look!"

Changchun Taoist said to Chen Yuan.

"Oh?"

Chen Yuan was a little surprised.

"It is said that in the countryside around Jianghuai City, in a village called "Shaxi Village", there is a carpenter who is proficient in carving. Many wood carvings carved by this carpenter are very charming. There are even rumors that some people have seen the wood carvings he carved. The wood carvings actually came to life.”

Changchun Taoist continued.

"I don't have time today. I'm going to Aoshan. I'll go to the carpenter's place in a few days when I come back."

Chen Yuan was humane to Changchun.

"That's all."

Changchun Taoist said with some regret.

Now that Chen Yuan has decided to go to Aoshan, the carpenter is in the village anyway and will not leave. He can only wait for Chen Yuan to come back and then visit him.

After saying goodbye to Changchun Taoist, Chen Yuan turned over and rode on his donkey.

Xue Niang sat on Xiao Huang's back and followed Chen Yuan, attracting the attention of many ordinary passers-by on the street.

Soon Chen Yuan left Jianghuai City and headed southeast where Aoshan was.

Along the way, there were countless young men and ladies riding in carriages and horses, dressed in fine clothes, and many scholars, all heading in the same direction.

Chen Yuan, a young Taoist in Taoist robes, riding a gray donkey, walking on the wide road, followed by a rat and a dog, looked a little conspicuous.

But because this road itself is the road to Aoshan, there are hundreds of Daoist temples in Aoshan, so although it is conspicuous, it is not unexpected, and no one came up to talk to Chen Yuan.

After walking for a while, Chen Yuan saw a bunch of dark brown, round, slightly larger than litchi wild fruits with a layer of fluff on the surface among the vines by the roadside.

"Carambola!"

Chen Yuan's eyes lit up.

When he was a child in his previous life, he lived in the countryside. After the beginning of autumn, he would look for this wild fruit in the deep mountains and old forests in the countryside.

Of course, carambola is their origin. For the name of wild fruit such as wild kiwi, in most places, "carambola" refers to another kind of fruit.

Chen Yuan took a look, the carambola vine was clinging to the branches of some miscellaneous trees on the roadside, like a huge grape vine, covering the surroundings, Chen Yuan let the gray donkey walk to the side of the road, stepped on the back of the gray donkey, and picked several Put them in the rolled up hem of your Taoist robe.

Chen Yuan sat on the gray donkey's back again, patted the donkey's butt, and told the gray donkey to continue on its way.

Then he took out a bunch of broken carambola vines from the pile of wild carambola in the Taoist robe, took one off from it, wiped the fluff on the surface of the carambola with the sleeve of the Taoist robe, and then put it in his mouth and took a bite.

Immediately, a juice with a sour taste flowed out from the bitten cut skin, which made Chen Yuan frowned slightly, but also his eyes lit up.

"That's the smell, the smell that hasn't been fully cooked yet."

Chen Yuan looked at the wild carambola in his hand and said.

"You need to find a sealed container, put it in for two or three days, and let it ripen."

While talking to himself, Chen Yuan used the "Hutian Curse" to put these wild carambolas into his sleeve robe when the passers-by were not paying attention.

Chen Yuan, who has practiced the "Pot Sky Curse", can use any place on his body that has space to collect lifeless dead objects, including but not limited to sleeves, mouth, chest, and even purses and baggage on his body. etc.

"I just went to Aoshan to visit the Taoist Qi Dian, and I didn't bring any presents. Let these wild carambolas be my presents."

Chen Yuan secretly said in his heart.

"Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan, Xue Niang wants to eat anything delicious!"

Looking at the passers-by who did not pass by the roadside, the passers-by in front and behind were still far away from them. Xue Niang, who was following behind Chen Yuan and riding on Xiao Huang's back, shouted behind Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan thought for a while, picked an unripe wild carambola from the broken vine, and threw it to Xueniang behind him.

Snow Lady jumped three or four feet high from the little yellow dog's back, just in time to throw Chen Yuan out. She caught the star fruit falling from the air in her claws, and then landed firmly on the little yellow's back.

Then, following Chen Yuan's example, he wiped the fluff on the wild carambola with the hair on his paws, and then took a bite.

Squeak!

Then Xueniang squeaked, showing a complicated expression on her face like a human.

"How is it delicious?"

Seeing Xue Niang's expression, Chen Yuan, who was riding on the back of a donkey, turned around and happened to see this scene, which made him laugh. Chen Yuan asked Xue Niang.

"It's not delicious, it's sour, it's too sour."

Xue Niang's expression suddenly became a mask of pain, she said to Chen Yuan.

But she didn't throw the wild carambola that Chen Yuan gave her on the ground, but after taking a sip, she looked at the carambola in her hand with a tangled expression, hesitating whether to take another bite.

"Of course it's sour. This thing is called carambola. It's not ripe yet. After picking it, put it in an airtight container. It will be very sweet after two days of ripening."

Chen Yuan explained to Xue Niang, then he stopped paying attention to Xue Niang behind him, turned around and prepared to continue on his way on the gray donkey.

But when he turned around, he happened to see the gray donkey turning his head too, looking at him expectantly.

"Why do you want it too?"

Chen Yuan laughed.

After several treatments with talismans, Gray Donkey's illness had already been cured.

After seeing the gray donkey nodding, Chen Yuan could only take another one off and stuffed it into the gray donkey's mouth.

The gray donkey chewed a few times before turning around contentedly and continuing on its way.

"You have such a good mouth."

Looking at the gray donkey, Chen Yuan didn't feel sore at all, he exclaimed.

On the way to Aoshan, Chen Yuan was still on the roadside and saw many snakeberries, a jujube tree five or six feet away from the roadside, and other wild fruits.

However, things like snake berry are slightly poisonous, and it is fine to eat a small amount. If you eat a large amount, you will be poisoned, causing vomiting, dizziness, abdominal pain and other symptoms.

Chen Yuan once ate it with his playmates when he was a child in his previous life, but he never ate it again after learning that it was poisonous from the adults.

As for the jujube, it is not yet ripe in the beginning of autumn, at least after the frost, it needs to experience several frosts and freezes before it will gradually mature and be edible.

Otherwise, it will be the same as unripe wild carambola, but there is no sour taste, only astringent.

So Chen Yuan just took a look and had no intention of picking them.

Aoshan is more than a hundred miles away from Jianghuai City. Chen Yuan rode a donkey at a fast speed, but he set off at noon, so he drove until dark, and drove in the dark for a while, and finally arrived at Aoshan at Haishi.

I saw Aoshan Mountain like a blue dragon, entrenched in front under the night.

Chen Yuan found a Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain, got off the donkey and knocked on the door, and waited for the Taoist inside to open the door, Chen Yuan said to the other party:

"My name is Qingming, and I am a good friend of Taoist Qi Dian of the Shenhuo Temple. It is only my first time here in Aoshan. I don't know where the Shenhuo Temple is. Can you point out the place for the poor Taoist?"

"You know Taoist Qi Dian, a friend of Shenhuo Temple?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest who opened the door looked a little surprised and looked Chen Yuan up and down.

"good."

Chen Yuan nodded.

After thinking for a moment, the Taoist said to Chen Yuan:

"Master Daoist, this Aoshan Mountain is very big. There are hundreds of Taoist temples on the mountain, which are distributed in different places on the mountain. It takes at least half an hour from the foot of the mountain to the Shenhuo Temple."

"Moreover, the mountain road is not easy to walk at night. Seeing that the Taoist Master is still bringing his donkey, why don't the Taoist Master rest for a night in Disguan and then go to Shenhuo Temple tomorrow morning?"

Then the Taoist said to Chen Yuan.

"Is this okay?"

Chen Yuan thought about it, and it was really not good to visit Taoist Qi Dian at Shenhuo Temple at night, so he asked the Taoist.

"What's wrong, the Taoist sect in the world is a family. Since the Taoist priest is a guest of the Shenhuo temple, and he also knows Taoist priest Qi Dian, he is a guest of my Yangliu temple."

This middle-aged man is humane.

"Then the Taoist priest will be in trouble."

Chen Yuan was humane to this middle-aged man.

"No trouble."

The middle-aged Taoist replied, then opened the door of the Taoist temple and welcomed Chen Yuan and his gray donkey, as well as Xue Niang and Xiao Huang, into the Taoist temple.

"They are pet animals raised by the poor."

Seemingly seeing the confusion in the middle-aged Taoist's eyes when he saw Xue Niang and Xiao Huang, Chen Yuan explained to the middle-aged Taoist.

The doubts in the middle-aged Taoist's heart were answered, so he stopped paying attention to this matter.

After welcoming Chen Yuan into the Taoist temple, the Taoist helped find a corner location for Chen Yuan's gray donkey in the backyard. After loading it with some fodder, he arranged a guest room for Chen Yuan.

Before leaving, he said to Chen Yuan: "Taoist priest, let's rest earlier. Our Qingyang temple is a small temple on this Aoshan Mountain. There are not many Taoist priests in the temple, only a dozen or so. Most of the brothers and elders have slept, so we don't want to leave." Introduced to the Taoist priest."

Chen Yuan said: "I'm sorry for the inconvenience."

After sending the middle-aged Taoist away, Chen Yuan put down the sword box, looked at the room, and found that although the room was small, it had all internal organs.

Beds, shelves, cabinets, tables and other furnishings are all available.

After settling Xiao Huang and letting him sleep in the corner, Chen Yuan took off his Taoist robe and lay on the bed to sleep.

When I opened my eyes again the next day, it was already bright.

Chen Yuan got up, woke up Xue Niang and Xiao Huang, put on his Taoist robes, opened the door and walked out with the sword box on his back.

Chen Yuan happened to see the Taoist priest who received him last night, and he was cleaning the Taoist temple with all the Taoist priests in the temple.

"Daozhang, don't you want to sleep a little longer?"

"I won't sleep anymore. If I want to go to Shenhuo Temple, I should get up earlier."

Chen Yuan chatted with the Taoist priest, and greeted other Taoist priests in the Taoist temple. After asking the specific location of the Shenhuo Temple on the mountain, he thanked them for staying overnight, and Chen Yuan went to the Shenhuo Temple on Mount Ao by himself. go.

According to these Taoist priests, the road up the mountain was narrow and steep, and it was inconvenient to lead the donkey on the way. The Taoist priests suggested that Chen Yuan leave the donkey in the Taoist temple temporarily and they would take care of it for him. When Chen Yuan left the mountain, he could come and pick it up. Chen Yuan felt that what they said was reasonable, so he agreed.

It was dark yesterday, and Chen Yuan didn't see it clearly. At this time, it was just after dawn, and Chen Yuan found that the Ao Mountain was nearly six hundred feet high.

Although the height is not high, it stretches out in all directions. Looking at the shape of the mountain, there are actually four branches.

Chen Yuan walked up for another quarter of an hour, passing by many Taoist temples. After rounding the mountainside of a mountain in front, his eyes suddenly opened up, and he saw an endless sea with the same color as the sea and sky appeared in front of Chen Yuan.

On the surface of the sea, a rising sun that had just risen and dyed the sky and sea water red hung in the sky.

(End of this chapter)