White Bone Monkey King

Because of the return of Jin'an and the old Taoist priests, Wu Zang Taoist Temple was noisy for more than ten days. The enthusiasm of the people from the city to come to the Taoist temple to watch the legendary young temple owner who had not yet fully grown his hair gradually subsided.

Because there is another bigger event that has attracted the attention of people across the country, because it is about to celebrate New Year’s Eve and welcome the New Year. There are still a few days until New Year’s Eve, and there are already people on the streets. In the lively New Year atmosphere, people can be seen everywhere busy hanging new lanterns, posting new couplets, and killing pigs and sheep in preparation for the New Year.

There are also many children running happily in the streets and alleys, holding incense sticks and firecrackers. They are like mud monkeys and are running around in the city. If they are not careful, they will blow holes in someone's quilt or knock someone out of a pickle jar. A hole was blown up, giving the adults a headache.

On the roof, Jin An finished swallowing the vibrant morning glow and woke up from his practice. However, he did not get off the roof immediately. Instead, he continued to sit cross-legged on the roof, quietly watching the bustling city, but he felt the sadness of leaving home. heart.

People say that the setting sun is the end of the world, but I can’t see my home even if I look to the end of the world.

Time flies.

So fast.

It’s been two years in the blink of an eye...

He spent the New Year's Eve last year wandering around in the frozen snow-capped mountains of Tubo. This year is his first official Spring Festival...

"Little brother, you have been sitting on the roof for a while. What are you looking at? Come down quickly and eat the fried dough sticks and soy milk while it is hot, otherwise it will get cold early." The old Taoist priest ran to the eaves with soy milk and fried dough sticks in his hand and called Jin I settled down to have breakfast. It was too cold in the winter in the early morning. After shouting, I didn’t forget to take a sip of the hot soy milk. I still couldn’t bear to spit out the soy milk even though my mouth was so hot.

Jin An withdrew his gaze and glanced at the funny old Taoist priest who was jumping up and down because of his greedy mouth. He put away the sadness on his face and stood up with a smile: "Okay, here we go."

He jumped off the roof and walked to the kitchen with the old Taoist priest. Huang quickly scooped up the rice porridge from the pot on the stove, took out the steaming soy milk and fried dough sticks from the steamer and handed them to Jin An. Four people gathered around Sit at a table and have breakfast.

Breakfast in the morning is very simple. Soy milk, fried dough sticks, rice porridge, and a small plate of pickled vegetables. It is light and light, without the extravagant fish, and it is the breakfast of the day.

Even the deep-fried dough sticks couldn't stop the old Taoist priest's mouth. The old Taoist priest talked cheerfully while eating breakfast: "While smelling the smell of firecrackers, gunpowder and sulfur, eating steaming breakfast to warm up the body, this is called the taste of the New Year. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, little brothers, let’s buy some New Year’s goods and post couplets.”

Jin An naturally had no objection, and asked the old Taoist priest and Huang Zinian to discuss what they needed to buy, and then brought Silly Sheep with him.

"Why did you bring the sheep with you?"

The old Taoist priest took a sip of the rice porridge, and then cried bitterly: "I'm afraid that it will hang a sheep's head when it passes by the butcher shop, and it will go crazy and kill the butcher shop owner. The old Taoist priest Huang Donor and I are not strong enough to hold down your sheep, little brother."

Jin An was happy: "If you don't let Shayang help you pull the pallet truck, do you want to go back and forth dozens of times to carry the New Year's goods?"

The old Taoist priest thought it made sense when he heard it, but he still frowned. Jin An smiled and made a suggestion: "You won't go around the mutton shop in advance."

The old Taoist priest suddenly understood, slapped his thigh, and shouted: "Little brother, what you said makes sense, why didn't I think of it?"

Jin An: "..."

Huang Zinian: "..."

Huang: "..."

The silly sheep was lying next to the stove where the charcoal fire was not extinguished, munching carrots while the fire was cooking. He raised his eyes and glanced at Jin An, who was using it as a coolie. He spurted hot air from his nose as if he was not convinced, and then continued to gnaw. He gnawed on the carrot.

"Taoist Master Jin'an and Taoist Chen, do we need to purchase some blank couplets this year and write our own Spring Festival couplets?"

Huang Zinian, who was eating rice porridge mixed with pickles, saw that both of them looked puzzled. After finishing the rice porridge, he put down his bowl and chopsticks and explained: "Every year at the end of the year, people in the city will go to Taoist temples and invite people to the temple. Spring couplets are asked to be posted by the door god on the door or stove to ward off evil spirits and welcome good fortune. Last year, many people who came to offer incense wanted to ask for a pair of Spring couplets to celebrate the New Year. However, at that time, Taoist priest Jin'an and Taoist Master Chen was not in the temple, and my magic skills were still shallow, so I didn’t dare to mislead anyone, so I declined them one by one.”

"Now that everyone knows that Taoist priests Jin'an and Chen are back, there will definitely be many people coming to pray for Spring Festival couplets or blessing words."

The old Taoist priest who loved to join in the fun, his eyes lit up after hearing this, and he immediately rolled up the sleeves of his Taoist robe, excitedly shouting that he was going to have a big fight: "I'm not bragging, Taoist. When I traveled around the world, many people were dissatisfied. They go to Taoist temples and don’t go to temples. Instead, they seek out experienced Taoists like me, a wandering Taoist priest on the street, to write for them. Some wealthy people with deep pockets will also seek out experienced Taoists to consecrate magical instruments. You are still young and don’t understand these skills. There are many experienced people here. I'm familiar with it."

Jin'an waved his hand: "Buy it, buy it and let the old Taoist priest write enough. He must write five hundred pairs of Spring Festival couplets in one day. The more, the better. Confucius and Mencius often taught us that 'the master can also benefit the world'. Since you, old Taoist priest, volunteered like this, We must carry this good forward.”

The old Taoist priest immediately wailed: "Little brother, Taoist, I am a human being, not a centipede. I only have one pair of hands. Even if my hand is broken, I still can't write five hundred pairs of Spring Festival couplets in one day!"

Looking at Jin An and the old Taoist priest joking around, Huang Zinian and his wife at the same table also laughed. Since the two came back, the Wu Zang Taoist Temple has become lively again.

In the end, Jin An took the silly sheep and went out with Huang Zinian to buy new year's goods, because since the addition of an old Taoist priest, Wu Zang Taoist Temple has added a new business, interpreting divination for pilgrims, and predicting marriage, fortune, and misfortune. Now Taoist temples cannot do without old Taoist priests.

At the same time, it also gives the old Taoist priest more time to focus on studying how to repair the Luo Geng Jade Plate.

Speaking of Luo Geng's Jade Plate, Jin An couldn't help but miss Mr. Uprising and Senior Zhong. He had been back for so many days, but he had never seen these two people come to him...

Huang Zinian was very diligent in his practice, and he never forgot to ask Jin An for advice on some confusions in his practice. Jin An also developed a love for talents, and told Huang Zinian everything he knew. He gave Huang Zinian careful guidance without hiding anything.

In the days since he came back from Jin'an, Huang Zinian has made rapid progress. A few days of practice are worth the past few months. Because Huang Zinian is kind to the Five Zang Taoist Temple and has made great contributions to the Five Zang Taoist Temple, he is not stingy with Huang Zinian and is devoted to it. For Huang Zinian, he sealed a hundred-year-old blood-tonifying elixir and a hundred-year-old fire-strengthening medicine to help him practice.

On the road of practice, Dharma, wealth, partners, land, virtue, and sincerity are all indispensable. Especially the practice method of Five Zang Taoism is even more difficult. It is five times more difficult and requires five times more elixirs. Without the support of a great religion, it is almost very difficult. It is difficult to achieve great results.

Otherwise, Wu Zang Taoism would not have declined so quickly.

The atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger. On the bustling streets filled with people, the two of them continued to walk and give instructions on how to practice. Suddenly, Jin An paused in his steps and turned to look at a few middle-aged men in the crowd.

The middle-aged men had dark skin, showing a deep sense of vicissitudes of life, and had beards on their faces. They looked like people who had been traveling all year round. They stood in the crowd and pointed in the direction of Jin'an.

Seeing Jin An suddenly turning around to look at them, several middle-aged men were startled and subconsciously dodge their eyes. When they secretly raised their heads again to look at Jin An again, they were stunned. Jin An was holding the sheep. Ann was already standing in front of them.

Jin An: "Do you know me?"

Several people shook their heads quickly.

Jin An pondered: "What's wrong with you?"

Several people still shook their heads.

Jin An: "You look a little panicked?"

Several people still shook their heads.

Jin An frowned.

At this moment, one of the middle-aged men, the oldest and tallest lean man, looked at the frowning Jin An, thinking that the abrupt behavior of the others had made him unhappy, so he said cautiously: "This As a Taoist priest, may I ask which Taoist temple you studied under?"

Jin An: "Taoist Temple of the Five Internal Organs."

The breathing of several middle-aged men became obviously short, and they closed their breaths nervously. After several people looked at each other, the lean man asked nervously: "Does the Taoist priest talk about the Five Zang Taoist Temple...do you have a specific address?"

"Besides us, is there another Five Zang Taoist Temple in Fucheng?" Jin An looked at Huang Zinian beside him this time.

Huang Zinian shook his head.

Jin An is not a slow-responsive person. His heart beat heavily and his voice became urgent and he couldn't wait to ask: "You don't know me, but you know the Wu Zang Taoist Temple and the Wu Zang Taoist robe I am wearing. Have you ever seen me wearing the same robe?" A Taoist wearing a Taoist robe?"

The lean man hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Jin An was overjoyed and couldn't wait to ask again: "Is that Taoist about forty years old, with the Taoist name Yuyang, saying that he studied in the Five Zang Taoist Temple?"

There were too many people and noisy people on the street, not a place to talk, so Jin An found a quieter restaurant nearby, booked a private room, and politely treated a few men to a meal.

During the meal, he finally asked the other party why he kept staring at his Taoist robe. Sure enough, this matter had something to do with the last remaining master uncle Yuyangzi of Wu Zang Taoist Temple!

Kang Dingguo's escort bureaus are divided into dry-road escort bureaus and water-road escort bureaus. The men in front of them are water-road escort bureaus, who help their employers solve their problems and deal with water thieves who rob goods and kill people. Wuzhou Mansion was not their final destination, but just a stopping point on the way. It was temporarily safe after docking, and there was no need for too many people on the ship, so the people from the escort agency took turns to go ashore to rest.

The story of their seeing Master Yuyangzi had to start from last year.

In the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River last September, it was said that there were sharks making waves. A once-in-a-century storm broke out on the sea, capsizing many ships, and many drowned people were washed ashore. This case caused a sensation in the local area. , attracted many people to watch.

I heard that the scene at that time was very scary. A peaceful small fishing village was filled with dead people after waking up one night. The smell of corpses filled the sky. Those who died in a shipwreck were soaked in the sea water until they were no longer human. Some corpses Beads fell out of the eye sockets. Some corpses exploded into bloody pieces when touched, and some corpses were so rotten that white bones were exposed... Even government officials and gangsters who were used to seeing corpses rushed to the fishing village after receiving the report. I started vomiting, vomiting out all the gall, my legs were weak, and I didn't even have the courage to enter the village, let alone perform an autopsy.

The government was worried that a plague would break out if so many dead people piled up, so they called people from Yizhuang to transport the corpses. They wanted to transport the corpses back to Yizhuang first so that the families of the shipwreck victims could come to Yizhuang to identify the bodies. As a result, even people from Yizhuang vomited on the spot and did not have the courage to enter the village.

At this moment, a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing the same five-color Taoist robes as Jin An happened to pass by. That Taoist priest was also a man of real ability. Such a terrifying and terrifying scene, even people from Wuzuo and Yizhuang did not dare to approach. The Taoist could approach the corpses without changing his expression, and carried the shipwrecked people out of the fishing village after being soaked in the sea and transformed into human shapes.

That scene was really amazing!

Those corpses that were so rotten that they exploded when touched fell into the hands of that strange Taoist priest. It was as if their corpse energy and resentment were suppressed, and they were placed in Yizhuang without incident.

You must know that those corpses were soaked in sea water, and it was the summer when the temperature was the hottest and the rotten smell was the worst. No one wanted to get close to the corpses for fear of being contaminated with bad luck. The Taoist not only carried the shipwrecked people out personally, but also went to visit them personally. The body of the deceased was transported back to Yizhuang for safe living.

The scene at that time aroused the admiration of many people, including the brothers in front of me who happened to be passing by.

Although the brothers had no contact with the Taoist priest, they were all moved by his courage and kindness, so they were very impressed by the five-color Taoist robes. When they saw Jin An's back in the crowd just now, they mistakenly thought he was in Wuzhou Fucheng. I was lucky enough to meet the master, and I couldn't help but take a few more looks. But before they could step forward to confirm, Jin An, who had keen senses, noticed it.

Jin An was surprised and happy. He was surprised that Master Yuyangzi still had such an experience. He was happy that he finally found out about the whereabouts of Master Yuyangzi. Although he did not get the exact answer, he firmly believed that the Taoist priest was Uncle Yuyangzi, I wish I could put on a pair of wings and fly to my uncle right now!

After finishing the meal and saying a few polite words, Jin An, who had no intention of buying new year's goods, immediately returned to the Taoist temple to share the good news with the old Taoist priest.

When Jin An ran back to the Taoist temple in a hurry, the old Taoist priest learned the whereabouts of Yu Yangzi and was overjoyed. When the old Taoist priest asked Jin An what his plans were, Jin An almost said without thinking that Taoist Wu Zang and Master Yu Youzi were the same. His regret, he didn't want any more regrets to happen to Master Yuyangzi, and planned to find Master Yuyangzi himself.

The old Taoist priest put down the couplets and brushes in his hands: "It just so happens that Zongren and his son are also in Jiangnan. Old Taoist, I will go with you, my little brother!"

"Little brother, when do you plan to leave for Jiangnan?"

The old Taoist priest looked at Jin An eagerly, fearing that Jin An would suddenly leave without saying goodbye and leave him to go to Jiangnan alone.

Even Jin An didn't expect that he had just returned to Wu Zang Taoist Temple after traveling for more than a year, and before a few peaceful days, he would be leaving again. He thought about it, frowned and said, "I need Make some preparations first.”