Cultivation

Chapter 53 Old History

This man was a thin young man, with patches on his half-worn clothes, and he was carrying a pole on his shoulder with a circle of hemp rope hanging on it. Baggage picking for some hard-earned cash.

Zhang Linggu recognized this bitter-looking young man as Shangguan Li disguised as a man at a glance. After walking for a while, he called Shangguan Li: "That picker, come here!"

He went into a rice shop and bought twenty catties of rice for Shangguan Li to carry, and the two continued walking.

Shangguan Li whispered, "I'm a very small-minded person."

"You are already pretending to be a porter, how can you deceive people if you don't pick something?" Zhang Linggu put his hands behind his back, and walked out like a gentleman. This weight is nothing to Shangguan Li, even if Shangguan Li turned his face He felt that he would definitely not lose.

It looked like Zhang Linggu was leading a porter home, but Shangguan Li whispered to Zhang Linggu where to go. The two wandered around the street, bought some vegetables and fruits, and then walked in. The back door of a private school.

The children in the front yard were reading in low tones. Shangguan Li went to the kitchen to put things away. Zhang Linggu leaned against the courtyard door, feeling a little dazed. He remembered that when he was a child, what he envied most was that other children in the village could go to private schools. For a while, he especially wanted to Leaving Wuxin Temple, I planned to sell Wujiuzi's belongings and sell them for some money to go to school, take the imperial examination for an official position, and become a master in the future.

Shangguan Li put his things out and led Zhang Linggu to the side courtyard: "This is my cousin's private school... It is said that my cousin is not very close. After several generations, most people don't know that I am related to him. .”

They suddenly encountered betrayal from the same family, and they dared not go back to Qianshan, nor did they dare to meet their relatives in the mortal world, for fear of causing disaster to their relatives,

After closing the door to the side yard, the talisman worked to separate this place, and the outside sound could not be heard.

Zhang Linggu first explained the cause and effect he knew: "Yuan Qi appeared in Prison Longling to worship the Qingmu Altar Master as his master. At that time, I thought you and Guo Sixian were doomed, but I didn't expect you to escape. "

"We didn't expect..." Shangguan Li hesitated for a moment. At that time, they were on a boat along the water looking for the sprite that Zhang Linggu had mentioned. Standing on the bow of the boat, ready to show off his might at any time, but suddenly he heard the sound of falling into the water behind him, Guo Sixian was swept away by the monster in the water, and Yuan Qi stabbed himself with a sword without hesitation...

She shook her head to let the disturbing thoughts in her mind go away: "Ten years ago when we went to prison Longling, Lu Zhenren gave Si Xian a tortoise shell, and used this tortoise shell to make Si Xian bring back a sentence to Uncle Feng, that The tortoise shell Sixian is always on my body, thanks to this tortoise shell we can escape from the ghosts."

Zhang Linggu knew that Shangguan Li's martial arts skills were no problem in protecting himself. The one saved by the tortoise shell should be Guo Sixian. From the open door, he saw Guo Sixian sitting on the ground with a lot of calculated papers beside him: "He is another What's wrong?"

"He said that he saw the astrology chart of Prisoner Longling ten years ago from the tortoise shell, and he felt that there must be some mystery in the astrology chart of Reverend Lu, so he had to do the math, and the demon had been in trouble for several days." Shangguan Li sighed. After taking a deep breath, she looked at Zhang Linggu: "What are your plans right now? Are you really going to help Wanxianzong? The master of the Qingmu altar is the senior brother I sent, and he knows everything we know. He plays?"

"Give this to Guo Sixian." Zhang Linggu handed over the stolen Immortal Slaying Formation layout map and the tortoise tortoise shell to Shangguan Li: "By the way, you are from the capital, and you can help me inquire about one thing, which is more than 100 yuan." About 200 years ago, Lord Qingmutan led one hundred thousand Yin soldiers to attack the capital. I heard that an expert blocked him from the capital and let him escape with serious injuries. I want to find out where this expert is now. If I can Inviting him to make a move must be twice the result with half the effort."

"200 years ago?" Shangguan Li hesitated: "I'll find a way to look through the history books."

Zhang Linggu walked out of the courtyard, and Guo Sixian would not pay attention to him when he was calculating. He was relieved to see that Shangguan Li and Guo Sixian were safe and sound: "Uncle Bei is looking for you everywhere, but Master Qingmu can manipulate demons, he Those ghosts under his command can still possess their bodies, and I don’t know how many people he has hidden in the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect and even in the mortal world right now, so it’s safe for you to stay here for the time being.”

"Then you have to tell Master so that he won't have to look for us everywhere." It's not that Shangguan Li never thought about sending a letter to Ziwei Xingyu, but she had the same concerns as Zhang Linggu: "According to what you said, 200 years Before... Your Qingmu altar master is Gaozu's prince... Gaozu's sons did have a history of being brothers, and in the end it was indeed the second prince who became the emperor... After so many years, Qingmu altar master will not still think about it Do you want to be emperor?"

"Why not?" Zhang Linggu's eyes turned cold: "He has a much longer lifespan than ordinary people, and when he becomes emperor, the whole world is his, and he can have as many people as he wants to practice the ghost way."

At this time, a middle-aged man in an old cloth shirt walked around the courtyard door: "Ah Li is back, who is this?"

"Oh, I'm a friend." Shangguan Li's eyes suddenly lit up: "Cousin, if I remember correctly, you used to be a recorder in the history museum. It just so happens that my friend has some old things that I want to verify."

The cousin immediately felt that the young man with the sword in front of him was very pleasing to the eye, and he asked with a smile, "What do you want to ask?"

"I want to ask about an old incident when Emperor Taizong was in the past." Zhang Linggu said.

"Taizong?" Uncle was very surprised: "Taizong's life can be described as ups and downs, what do you want to ask?"

"I..." Zhang Linggu glanced at Shangguan Li, he felt that this kind of old pedant probably wouldn't know about those things, but Shangguan Li gave him a questioning look.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "I heard that there were evil spirits in the capital in Taizong's later years?"

"You want to know about this?" Uncle Biao was even more delighted when he heard it, and motioned Zhang Linggu to follow him: "This is a long story to say, come here, I will make a pot of good tea and talk to you slowly."

Zhang Linggu was a little puzzled by his cousin's excited appearance, and asked Shangguanli with his eyes.

Shangguan Li said in a low voice: "My cousin is like this kind of unofficial history with strange powers and gods, so I can't stay in the history museum and come out to open private schools."

The uncle made tea and said that the unofficial history of the year was full of hype, which was similar to what Zhang Linggu knew. He patiently listened to it, trying to find something he had overlooked from the mortal rumors.

While waiting for his cousin to rest and drink tea, Zhang Linggu asked his cousin, "Then who is this expert who repelled a hundred thousand Yin soldiers?"

"Don't tell me, I also researched the origin of this expert at that time." The cousin lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "You think, Taizong has Mr. Wei who can kill the Dragon King in his dreams, why? Is it the turn of an expert who no one can tell the origin to deal with these ghost soldiers?"

"Why?" Zhang Linggu asked appreciatively.

Shangguan Li rolled his eyes.

"Because this man is a pariah." The cousin said, "I have researched and verified. After all, the emperor must reward you for repelling a hundred thousand ghost soldiers and keeping the capital. I checked all the reward edicts back then, and finally Let me find some clues, this person is the work of Yizhuang."

The work in Shouyi Village is a hard and tiring job that is also despised by others. Most of them are done by desperate pariahs, but such people are often the ones who deal with corpses the most... Could it be that this workman is also a ghost? Master of Tao?

Zhang Linggu became excited when he heard it: "Then where is this scorpion now?"

"He got a reward and left the capital without being a pariah." The cousin said, "It's not suitable for such a background to be a half-job. You may not be able to know a few big characters, so ah, take it." The smartest people are those whose money goes away."

Zhang Linggu asked persistently, "Didn't you check where he went?"

"No." The cousin's obvious interest in this author stopped at confirming his parentage.

Zhang Linggu still didn't give up: "Then do you know where the Yizhuang he is working as is?"

"I know, three hundred miles away from the south gate of the capital, Yizhuang in Huaiyin County." My cousin said triumphantly.

"He went to the capital in Huaiyin County to drive back the ghost soldiers?" Zhang Linggu and Shangguan Li exchanged glances, making sure that this operation was not easy.

"Of course." Uncle Biao said: "He brought eighteen soldiers and bravely spread things along the road from Huaiyin County, probably arrays or talismans, and spread them all the way to the capital. In just three hundred miles, all the ghost soldiers were exhausted. , When the ghost soldier attacked the capital, there was only one general left, and he used the 200-face gossip mirror prepared in advance to destroy the general ghost soldier, thus preserving the peace of my dynasty for more than [-] years."

"Nowadays, the minister who is making heavy use of his servants increases taxes every year. I think the peace is not going to be peaceful." Shangguan Li was born in an official family. Although he has been on the mountain for more than ten years, he still has heard of some things.

The cousin hurriedly slapped Shangguan Li on the mouth with a fan: "Shut up, the trouble will come out of your mouth."

"I want to visit this Huaiyin County." Zhang Linggu looked at Shangguan Li: "He is gone, maybe there are apprentices or something."

Or is it just a change of human skin?

Shangguan Li immediately said, "I'll go too."

She has long been impatient to stay in her pedantic cousin's private school, and now that Qianshan is safe and sound, she still has to go to conquer Devil's Nightmare Mountain, of course she has to lead the way.

"You left with me, what will Guo Sixian do?" Zhang Linggu asked.

"Find a carriage and give him a stack of papers, he can be as quiet as if he doesn't exist." Shangguan Li's eyes showed a rare retreat: "Right now, let's not separate."

After so many years in Qianshan, she has experienced a lot of hardships. She is not a person who is afraid of hardships, but she is very afraid that everyone around her will not be what she used to be.

The author has something to say: I didn’t go home yesterday, and my phone was out of battery. This is the reason why I stopped updating for a day, really