As the downfall of the Republic of China, there was a Taoist priest named Uncle Jiu

More than a dozen big men with swords and swords scared passers-by.

"It's only 15 oceans, what if it's 150, [-] million oceans?"

Gu Zhou said calmly.

As a man who was a loser in the plane of the Republic of China and had the entire modern plane as his backer, tens of thousands of oceans were just the beginning.

"15! 150 million?"

Gu Tian swallowed his saliva, with the meaning of dreaming: "I can't imagine how much that is, no! Gu Zhou, you have to be a recruiter in the town, it's only 150 oceans, and a dozen of us can protect it." It’s a little unreliable, if it’s [-] million, at least [-] escorts are needed.”

Now Gu Tian looks at everyone as if he sees people with ulterior motives, yelling to make the brothers vigilant and not to relax.

Gu Zhou couldn't help laughing, you all looked extremely vigilant, even a fool would know that there are good things on the carriage, can you not pay attention?

"Brother Zhou, those people are a bit dishonest!"

The big bull urn sounded like an urn.

Gu Zhou followed his gaze and saw seven or eight sneaky people, and one of them was the man with a swollen face who blocked Gu Zhou and others in the box.

"Everyone, be vigilant, the soldiers will cover up the water and the earth!"

Gu Zhou reminded.

"understand!"

Everyone responded in unison.

The group of people seemed to know that Gu Zhou and his party were not easy to mess with, so they retreated after weighing it up.

Gu Zhou didn't stay in Daxiang County for long, and went straight to Shangqing Temple.

Along the way, there were seven or eight opium dens in the county towns that he saw, and inside and outside the opium dens, each one was tortured by opium to be inhumane, sallow, emaciated, insensitive, like the living dead.

After passing the opium den, you can still smell the pungent smell of opium, which is disgusting.

"Fuck!"

Seeing a scrawny body carried out from an opium den, Gu Zhou couldn't help cursing at it, and the joy of just making a deal disappeared.

He remembered the description of this era by later generations: "There must be a smoke den among ten rooms, and there must be smokers among ten people." As long as they are contaminated with opium, they will not do their jobs properly, indulge in excesses, live and dream, and feel like walking dead every day.

What's even more damning is that the imperial court actually taxed opium. This behavior undoubtedly legalized opium.As a result, the price of opium began to drop, addicts flooded, and opium entered the homes of ordinary people from dignitaries.

Opium even became a kind of hospitality etiquette.People chat and discuss business, and most of the time they meet in a smokehouse and take a couple of puffs.

"Please, give me a bite."

At the entrance of an opium den, a skinny and tearful man kowtowed fiercely, bleeding from the kowtow, just begging the opium den to give him a bite.

"Get lost! What do you suck if you don't have money!"

A big man kicked him somersault, and said viciously: "If you disturb the business again, I will beat you to death!"

The man turned a deaf ear and crazily climbed up to kowtow. At this moment, just to take a sip, he was willing to die.

"Go away!"

The big man greeted, two big men came out, punched and kicked the man, the scrawny man roared and panted, curled up, his eyes were sunken, his eyes were in a trance, and he muttered for mercy: "Give me a breath."

The man who was beaten was dying, and the three stopped their movements. The leader of the big man viciously glanced at the onlookers: "What are you looking at! Get out of here!"

Gu Zhou sighed lightly and quickened his pace.

Since he can't change it, he can only see it out of sight.

"Lawyer Luo is really extraordinary! Don't worry, I will send the rest of the litigation fee to your house later."

When they were about to leave Daxiang County, a group of people approached these two people. One was a big fat man with rings on eight out of ten fingers, and he looked very wealthy. Holding the folding fan, listening to the fat man's flattery.

"Hey, this guy surnamed Luo has succeeded again."

After the group left, some people talked about it, and their words were indignant.

It was only then that Gu Zhou realized that the man waving the folding fan was a lawyer who was very well-known in the local area. He specialized in litigation for dignitaries. Whether it was being murdered by Gao, raped, bribed, robbed or other crimes, all he had to do was ask Lawyer Luo. All acquitted.

As long as you have money, you can be acquitted of any serious crime.

"I really want to beat him to death!"

Gu Jun was filled with indignation.

Everyone nodded in unison.

After going up to the Shangqing Temple, Gu Zhou saw Shi Shaojian again, he was flirting with a young woman, his face was full of obscenity, when he saw Gu Zhou, his expression suddenly straightened, he came up to meet him, and said with a smile: "Young master Gu is here again to find the master of the temple. ?”

He remembered Gu Zhou, he was very generous, and he was a big sheep.

"That's right, please be more accommodating."

Gu Zhou quietly sent 20 yuan to the ocean.

Shi Shaojian weighed it for a while, and smiled all over his face: "It's easy to say, please wait a moment, Mr. Gu."

"The Taoist priest stays."

Gu Zhou leaned over: "I don't know how to worship Guanzhu as a teacher?"

He could remember that Shi Shaojian was Shi Jian's apprentice on the surface, but in fact he was his son, and he doted on this son very much. After Shi Shaojian died, he fought desperately with Uncle Jiu.

Since ancient times, there has been a pillow wind, and the son wind can also blow it.

Maybe after Shi Shaojian persuaded him, Shi Jian agreed as soon as his heart softened?

Shi Shaojian was a little bit embarrassed: "Usually speaking, ten years old is the most suitable age for cultivating Taoism. At Mr. Gu's age, if you come to practice Taoism again, you will get twice the result with half the effort."

He paused, and then said: "Mr. Gu should have asked the temple master, but was rejected by the temple master?"

"Yes."

"Based on Guanzhu's Taoist deeds, you can judge a person's cultivation qualifications with just a few glances."

Gu Zhou frowned slightly, he understood Shi Shaojian's meaning, your aptitude is likely to be poor, and you have passed the best age for cultivating Taoism, it is already very difficult to practice Taoism.

But I hang up!

Gu Zhou smiled secretly, took out a small bag, shook it with a 'ding ding', stuffed it into Shi Shaojian's hand, and said in a low voice: "Master Dao, my character is that I don't touch the south wall and don't look back. These oceans mean It means that if you can succeed, you will definitely not be treated badly.”.

Chapter 17

With the bulging bag in his hand, Shi Shaojian judged that the ocean inside would not be less than 100 yuan, and his heart was greatly moved. This amount of ocean was enough for him to be unrestrained three or five times.

You must know that although Shangqing Temple has good incense, but the people who come here are common people, and there are not many people who are generous.

Monasticism pays attention to wealth and law, among which wealth is the most important.Although the accumulation of Shangqing's observation is not small, the income is not small, but it can barely be enough for Shi Jian and him to practice.

And although he has a good old man, his aptitude is mediocre, and he didn't put his mind on cultivating Taoism. He didn't want to live a boring life of monasticism with Shi Jian, but just wanted to enjoy the colorful world of mortals.

So every once in a while he saves some money and sneaks out to be cool.

It's not that he didn't want to make some money with magic, but Shi Jian was strict in management and warned him many times that if he went wrong with magic, he would definitely break his leg.

"Okay, I'll help you persuade the temple master, but let me tell you in advance that the temple master is stubborn and won't listen to other people's persuasion. If you don't succeed, you can't blame me."

Shi Shaojian tightly held the bag containing the ocean.

"Of course!"

Gu Zhou nodded.

This time, it took 15 minutes for Shi Shaojian to come out, and he said happily, "I tried my best, whether I can succeed is up to you!"

Shi Shaojian had indeed wasted all his strength, he really wanted Gu Zhou to succeed in his apprenticeship, with such a rich junior, how could he be short of money in the future?

Nice!

Gu Zhou secretly rejoiced, blowing wind on his son was really useful.

After entering the Hall of Sanqing, when he saw Gu Zhou, Shi Jian's thick eyebrows twitched: "Did you kill that mandrill?"

Gu Zhou was stunned for a moment: "How does Daoist Shi Jian know?"

"You have the breath and remnant soul of a demon on your body, and you can tell it's a mandrill after a little deduction." Shi Jian said.

Gu Zhou suddenly became nervous: "Master Dao, the remnant soul of the mandrill remains on me, won't it affect me?"

In an instant, the injustice for life flashed through his mind.

Shi Jian shook his head: "No effect, it will dissipate on its own in a few days, don't worry too much."

Only then did Gu Zhou feel relieved, took a few steps back, tidied up the corners of his clothes, and solemnly said with cupped hands: "I also ask the Taoist priest to accept me as a disciple!"

"This is my apprentice ceremony."

Gu Zhou opened the brocade box in his hand, and there were ten pieces of gold in it, and each piece was worth ten taels, making a total of 100 taels, which was full of sincerity.

Shi Jian was silent for half a minute, and said: "Let me remind you again that cultivating the Tao is not elegant, but boring, and not many people can bear it. I have seen too many people say that they are sincere in the Tao, but in the end they endure it." There are no boring people.”

"The Taoist leader can test me. If the Taoist leader is afraid that I will damage the style of Maoshan, he can accept me as an entry disciple first, and then accept me as an entry wall after I pass the test." Gu Zhou said solemnly.

Shi Jian raised his eyebrows, moved his body, and before Gu Zhou could see clearly, he was beside him. He clasped his shoulders, and after a few seconds he let out a sigh, his face full of surprise: "I thought I was wrong, When we met for the first time, although your body was considered strong, it was only in the category of ordinary people. This time, your energy and blood are already full like a cow. Why did you see such a big change after only a few days?"

why?

Of course it was me.

There is no explanation for the cheating life!

Gu Zhou complained secretly, but said in his mouth: "Maybe it was because I hadn't practiced martial arts when I first met the Daoist priest. I have started practicing martial arts these days, and I feel that I have really improved rapidly. Maybe I am suitable for practicing martial arts?"

"What exercises did you practice?"

"The thirteen Taibao practice kung fu horizontally."

Upon hearing this, Shi Jian said to himself, "It's just a very common martial arts technique. Could it be that you are really a martial arts genius?"

"Maybe I'm really a martial arts genius."

Gu Zhou boasted shamelessly.

Shi Jian looked at Gu Zhou, nodded slightly, and sighed, "It's a pity that your cultivation talent is very average."

"How average?"

"Maoshan generally divides the aptitude of cultivators into upper-upper, upper-middle, middle, lower-middle, and lower-lower. Your aptitude is middle-lower."

Gu Zhou blushed, and saw a sense of self-inflicted humiliation in Shi Jian's eyes. His words were already very euphemistic. If you have to ask the bottom line, the qualifications of the middle and lower are only one step away from the waste of the next remote.

"Master, is it because I am too old that my aptitude is mediocre?"

Shi Jian couldn't help looking at Gu Zhou for two seconds, shocked by his shamelessness, I haven't confiscated you as a disciple yet, you are so thick-skinned that you call me master?

"Age is not a determining factor, but it does matter."

"It is indeed easy to enter Taoism when you are young, but it does not mean that you cannot enter Taoism when you are older. For example, Patriarch Lu Dongbin left Patriarch Quan with Zhong at the age of 40, and learned the Tao at the age of 50. Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng began to visit Taoism at the age of 60. , Only at the age of 70 did Mr. Huolong teach the truth."

"The so-called law and land of a wealthy couple, qualifications, opportunities, and roots of wisdom are all very important factors, qualifications and age are not decisive factors."

"Patriarch Lu Dongbin, Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng and other people who have achieved the Tao, the reason why they can get it is that the right time, place and people are indispensable."

Gu Zhou carefully understood Shi Jian's words, and then asked curiously: "Master, what is your qualification?"

"Go up."

Shi Jian said lightly.

What the hell!

He humiliated himself again.

Gu Zhou resisted the urge to burst into tears, and asked tentatively, "Does Master agree to accept me as an apprentice?"

Shi Jian straightened his expression, and said in a deep voice: "For the sake of your dedication to the Tao, the poor Taoist can accept you as an introductory disciple. Whether you can really enter the gate wall of Maoshan depends on your performance."

"Disciple pays respects to master!"

Gu Zhou was overjoyed, saluted solemnly, and looked at Shi Jian eagerly: "I also ask the master to give the disciple a method."

"You wait."

Shi Jian got up and left, came back a few minutes later, handed him a yellowed booklet, and Gu Zhou scanned the five traditional characters on the cover:

"Taiqing Regulating Qi Sutra"

"This is the qi refining method that my Maoshan disciples must practice. Within ten days, if you can refine qi and get started, Pingdao will accept you as a disciple, and you will be included in the Maoshan gate wall and recorded in the book."