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On the other hand, Zhuang Mi, who had the advantage of being tall and tall, faced the bamboo sword that pierced the wind, hesitantly wanted to dodge back, or swung the sword to block, and in the moment of hesitation, he was hit.

After Yue Anyan made the announcement, he asked again: "Who else wants to challenge?"

The apprentices below all stopped raising their hands, and all of them looked at the skinny girl with admiration.

I only practice one sword every day, is it so powerful?

A voice hesitated and said: "Daoist Yue, can I use a long spear to challenge instead?" It was the dark boy Wei Jingjie who raised his hand. With so many people watching, he was a little shy and embarrassed.

"Okay, come forward."

Yue Anyan nodded and asked, "Who do you want to challenge?"

Wei Jingjie got up and took a Zhangxu wooden gun from the shelf by the wall, walked into the arena, glanced at the nervous little girl, and said, "I want to challenge Tie Jinlin!"

He chose the boy in front of the little girl to compete with Shui Qingru, and he felt that the victory was invincible.

He is the oldest among all the apprentices, and everyone calls him Senior Brother in private.

Zhang Wenfeng smiled and nodded slightly.

Although the apprentices mainly practice swords, there are also those who like to use sticks, knives, whips, spears, and forks. The Taoist temple does not restrict the apprentices to practice more in their spare time. The second senior brother and Yue Anyan often give pointers.

Two teenagers of the same age faced each other with swords and guns at a distance of two feet. Following Yue Daozhang's "start", the tall and strong boy named Tie Jinlin swung his sword and jumped forward obliquely, fighting short against long. , must be close, the lecturer explained and demonstrated.

Wei Jingjie took a step back, turned the wooden spear in his hand and stabbed it out with a "shua" with his waist strength.

He practiced this pistol trick every day, practice makes perfect, and he has a good sense of the pistol.

"Crack", Tie Jinlin's bamboo sword couldn't knock against the stabbing wooden spear, and he wanted to dodge it, but it was already too late, he was stabbed in the shoulder by the round end of the wooden spear, knocked him back a few steps, and sat down on the ground.

The scene was silent.

Shui Qingru, who was standing at the end of the line, patted her chest lightly. She only knew how to stab with one move, and she couldn't block such a quick shot at all!

Chapter 186

It was snowing heavily, and the gate archway of Xianling Temple was crowded with parents who came to pick up their children.

I haven't seen my child for more than two months, I miss my parents very much, the Taoist rules are strict, I am sent to the mountain gate as an apprentice, and I only have one annual leave a year, right?They are usually not allowed to come to visit, so as not to delay the apprentice's practice, and even the apprentice's monthly allowance of [-] Wen is settled at the end of the year.

"Come on! They're here!"

Following the shout of the parent in front, everyone stopped chatting and stretched their necks to watch.

In the snow and mist,?First there was a tall Taoist priest wearing a thin cyan Taoist robe, followed by two lines of apprentices wearing dark blue thick cotton Taoist robes?Bamboo swords hanging from their waists,?Carrying cloth bags and umbrellas, and some holding bamboo baskets in their hands, they look very energetic.

The two lines of apprentices were silent, walking in an orderly manner, without looking sideways.

Affected by the solemn atmosphere, the noisy parents kept silent.

Zhang Wenfeng clasped his fists in salute to many parents, and called the names loudly, and let the apprentices and parents in line go back. Before leaving, the apprentices had to hand in the jade pendants hanging around their waists.

Walking out of the gate of the archway, the little ones recovered their nature one by one, showing off the clinking pocket money in their backpacks to the adults, and those who got the rewards in the assessment couldn't wait to uncover the straw on the bamboo basket,?A piece of fresh meat, a tail of fresh fish, and a pack of crispy snacks, these are what they earn by their ability.

In an instant,?There was a lot of voices, ?The bustle and bustle resumed.

The little girl Shui Qingru was very uneasy, she didn't feel relieved until she saw the two elder brothers in the crowd smiling happily at her and waving at her. She couldn't remember when was the last time her elder brothers smiled at her?

Daoist Yue told her that if no one came to pick her up, she would stay in the Taoist temple for the New Year, which is the same.

I also told her that her two elder brothers would rush to ask her to go home for the New Year.

Yue Anyan and the temple master were walking in the wind and snow, with a donkey with flapping ears behind them, they chatted while walking.

"Shui Qingru performed well today, she doesn't seem to have practiced 'Hand in Hand' yet?"

"No, she is very focused on sword practice, and earnestly completes the daily training according to the requirements. She has not been lazy for a while. This is very rare. She has developed a sense of sword. Maybe she can find a sense of spirit through sword practice."

"Other apprentices...can you just practice one move first, like the water is clear like flat stabbing, Wei Jingjie is practicing spear piercing, and then you can practice the whole set of swordsmanship after getting the feel of it?"

"Practicing only one move is very boring, and few can persist. You can let them try."

"After the Chinese New Year, when they come back, I let them try for a month, use their spare time to practice a move, stipulate how much training to complete every day, and see the effect. If they can persist, continue, and if they can't persist, don't force it."

Yue Anyan wore a blue cloak, and said with a smile: "Seeing Xiaoya make that sword today, I want to practice flat stab alone. The sword master He Daochang, who sparred with you last time, just used flat stab. It's very good." sharp!"

Zhang Wenfeng turned his head to look at it, and said with a smile: "I copied a copy of He Daochang's sword practice experience, and you can refer to it later."

"Okay, I'll make a copy."

Yue Anyan asked curiously: "That Daoist He is also a weird person, he gave you all his experience in sword practice, is he trying to cultivate an opponent for himself?"

"That's right. There are a lot of people who practice Taoism, but there are very few people who practice swords purely."

The two chatted casually, walked to the foot of the mountain and waited for the second senior brother to finish his work.

The donkey sniffled, smelling the aroma of wine wafting in the wind, left the two of them behind, and headed into the forest to the east.

After a while, the second senior brother sent the apprentices away, and when he returned, he brought a man in a straw hat with him.

The second senior brother looked a little weird, and introduced: "My lord, this is layman Xue Xiang from Beiyan Village. He said he hit something dirty, and he wants to ask the lord to help him cure his illness."

The man bowing and bowing seemed to have something to hide, he kept his mouth shut and didn't speak.

Zhang Wenfeng returned the salute and signaled the man to be polite, and looked at the sturdy, bronze-skinned man in his thirties. He didn't see any ghost or evil spirit on him, but his face was very haggard. There was a layer of snow on the edge of the straw hat, obviously he had driven a long way Lu asked, "Tell me first, what's going on?"

The man hesitated, and said in a low voice: "I... When I was speaking, someone was repeating what I said. I wonder if you... can you hear another voice?"

Zhang Wenfeng was slightly surprised. Seeing Yue Anyan looking at him, he seemed to have guessed something, nodded slightly with his senior sister, looked at the man's neck and continued to ask, "When did you have this symptom?"

"Yes... the last time it snowed, it had been more than 20 days. At the beginning, there was only an occasional echo, which was very subtle. I thought there was something wrong with my ears. I asked the barefoot doctor in the village to prescribe some herbal medicine. After a while, I didn't hear anything. I care too much, for the past three days, as long as I talk, that voice will follow me, disturbing my mind and not daring to speak..."

There was a look of fear on the man's face, seeing the Taoist priest's gentle expression, he boldly asked: "Guanzhu Zhang, am I being haunted by a dead ghost?"

He came to the town to see a doctor, the old doctor immediately changed his face, and told him to come to the fairy temple to look for Guanzhu Zhang. practice, what else?

Zhang Wenfeng saw that there was no abnormality in the man's throat when he spoke, so he knew it well, and said, "It's not a ghost, it's because you ate something bad. Go, go to the mountain and I'll diagnose and prescribe medicine for you."

The man heard that it was not haunted by ghosts, so he immediately let go of his hanging heart, thanked him a thousand times, and followed the three of them up the mountain.

Yue Anyan asked via voice transmission: "Listening to this symptom, is it the work of a respondent?"

Zhang Wenfeng replied via voice transmission: "That's right."

The second senior brother heard of such a strange disease for the first time, so he asked through voice transmission: "Monastery Master, what disease does Layman Xue have?"

"It's not a disease. It's just that I ate an answering bug in my stomach. It's still fine. When it gets serious, the answering bug gets into the throat and learns to speak after him. People outside can hear it clearly. It may be life-threatening."

Zhang Wenfeng had heard the rumors of the answering insects in his previous life, and there were very few records in the transcribed classics sent by Chen Qingqiao.

Yue Anyan said via voice transmission: "It is said that using thunder pills to make juice and swallowing it can drive out the answering insects."

"Not necessarily, there are many types of echo insects, with different attributes, and each has its own treatment method. Taking Lei Wan medicinal juice is only one of the widely used prescriptions."

Zhang Wenfeng transmitted sound to the two at the same time, saying: "The answering worm is a kind of zerg. If you subdue it and cultivate it slowly, there is a high chance that you will be enlightened."

The second senior brother was very interested. He envied Yue Anyan for subduing a silver-threaded knife mantis, but he didn't reveal it. He said via voice transmission: "After the answering insect cultivates its wisdom, what special ability does it have?"

"It's not very clear, some big sects may have related records."

When he reached the top of the mountain, Zhang Wenfeng asked the man to sit in the dining hall. He opened the door of the east hall, went to the pharmacy to get an ordinary pharmacopoeia, and returned to the dining hall that had not been used for a long time. The second senior brother had already lit the oil lamp.

Zhang Wenfeng sat across from the man. He opened the catalog of the pharmacopoeia, and every time he read the name of a medicine, he asked the man to follow him. He asked the man to tell him if the name of the medicine was not followed by the echo.

Read it all the way, and turned three pages.

"Hundreds."

"Hundreds... Huh!"

The man exclaimed in surprise: "There is no response."

Zhang Wenfeng said with a smile: "You read 'Hundred Parts' three more times."

The man read the words, but still did not get a response, Zhang Wenfeng nodded to Yue Anyan who was waiting, and transmitted a few words, Yue Anyan turned and went out.

Zhang Wenfeng asked: "Lady Xue, think about it carefully, did you eat any fruit before you got sick?"

"Fruit?"

The man frowned, and after a while, he shouted: "I remembered, two days before the snow fell, I was hunting in the mountains, and I saw a white fruit floating beside the dry grass in the stream, it was smooth and shiny. It was bad, so I picked it up, washed it, and ate it. It tasted very sweet. At that time, I still felt strange that the fruit in winter was so delicious? I searched around, but I didn’t find a tree with ginkgo fruit.”

The man compared the size of the fruit.

Zhang Wenfeng nodded slightly and asked, "Do you remember that place?"

"Remember, I used to trap hares around there . . . what's wrong with that fruit?"

The man surnamed Xue asked with a look on his face, he guessed some reasons.

"There are worms in the fruit."

"Ugh!"

Chapter 187 The chance to be delivered to the door

Yue Anyan brought a bowl of soup and medicine from the kitchen, put it in front of Xue Xiang, and said, "Drink the medicine while it's hot."

The man picked up the bowl and drank half of the black concoction in one gulp. After a while, he felt sick in his stomach, and hurriedly picked up the old wooden basin handed over by the priestess,?Squat down on the ground and vomited wildly.

Tears spit out, wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and saw that there was indeed a half-sized white worm in the pot of dirt, still wriggling and sinking, he was so disgusted that he almost vomited again, the second senior brother had already taken the pot away .

Zhang Wenfeng took out a yellow talisman from his sleeve, flicked his hand and ignited it out of thin air,?Waving a few times in the air, ?Muttering something in his mouth, he put the almost burnt talisman paper into a bowl of clean water on the table, and the smoke entered the water densely, and a little ashes floated on the surface of the water and swirled, saying:

"Drink the talisman water soon."

Without saying a word, the man hurriedly held the bowl, and drank the talisman water in the bowl with a "gudong gudong".

After drinking a bowl of cold water, the whole person recovered.

He tried to say a few words, but there was no such annoying echo.

It’s no wonder that Zhang Guanzhu, who is widely rumored to have immortal means, experienced it himself, and was so impressed that he put down the bowl, hurriedly took out the money bag from his arms, counted out 33 coins, and offered them with both hands with a face full of embarrassment. He didn’t prepare more than 300 coins Bring copper coins with you.

The second senior brother stepped forward to accept the incense money, right?Thank you very much.

Zhang Wenfeng said with a smile: "Lady Xue, please take me to the stream where the fruit was found. Is it convenient?"

"Convenience,? Convenience, Zhang Guanzhu is polite."

Xue Qu heard that he could do something for Guanzhu Zhang, so he agreed.

Yue Anyan looked at the second senior brother, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Xiong stayed at the Taoist temple, and my younger sister went out to relax." He clasped his fists in salute, and walked out of the door first.

The second senior brother felt very helpless for his junior sister's recklessness, and said: "Next time, I will go out instead."

In non-emergency situations, the Taoist temple must leave a monk to guard the formation. This is the consensus reached by the three of them.

Zhang Wenfeng smiled, and Chuanyin explained to the second senior brother a few tips on how to subdue the answering insects, so that the second senior brother can have things to do at home. He has a donkey and a young badger, and Yue Anyan has a silver-threaded knife beetle as a spiritual pet. If the second senior brother can It is also a good thing to subdue a bug.

The second senior brother woke up about the answering insect, and hurried to the kitchen, so as not to freeze the insect to death.

The three of them descended to the foot of the mountain against the wind and snow. Zhang Wenfeng, wearing a bamboo hat, yelled at the intersection.

Soon, the donkey jumped out from the south wall of the three courtyards and came running, reeking of alcohol.

The old cripple likes to get together lively, so when he built a house for Mrs. He, he asked Wei Xingde to ask someone to build one for him. Anyway, the Taoist temple is not short of money now, and it is convenient for him to live down the mountain because of his bad legs. The apprentices are on their annual leave. In his spare time, he can drink with Wei Xingde every day, and teach the boys how to practice guns by the way.

Life is comfortable, nothing else.

Zhang Wenfeng asked Xue Xiang to ride on the donkey, which made it easier for him to travel.

After some excuses, Xue Qu couldn't keep up with the pace of the two priests, so he rode to the back of the donkey without a saddle, and found that the donkey, which was drunk and reeking of alcohol, hadn't even tied the rein, so he had to Grab the two bamboo basket frames in front of you and bend over to support yourself.

The donkey spread its hooves and ran very fast, but fortunately it was very stable and did not bump at all.

Xue Qu grabbed the frame with one hand, covered his mouth and nose with his arm, and saw that the two long-legged donkeys didn't touch the ground. No matter how fast the donkey ran, they were all nearby, with fluttering wide sleeves and a calm expression. They looked like gods.

After passing through the town, I ran northwest for more than ten miles from the small path, until I arrived at a stretch of low mountains.

Get off the donkey and walk to the valley to the west. The road is not easy to walk in snowy weather. Xue Xiang is a hunter with a strong hand. He led the two of them to bend and turn for about three miles. They came to the foot of the miscellaneous woods and said: "Guanzhu Zhang, this is the place."

Point to the bend in the creek where there is only a little water covered by heavy snow.

Zhang Wenfeng looked around, clasped his fists and said: "It's hard for Lay Xue to run this trip, let's look for it here, Lay Xue, please go back first, this town house talisman can be pasted on the door frame of the main room, and it can protect the house for three years." Nian Qingning, free from evil spirits."

This gift cannot be refused, Xue Qu hurriedly took the yellow talisman with both hands, he was very wink, and heard that Guanzhu Zhang wanted him to avoid it.

I stopped being polite, thanked you again and again, and went home in the snow.

As for the fruit tree that Zhang Guanzhu wanted to find, whether it was cut down to eliminate pests for the people or for other purposes, it was not his concern.

In this life, he will never eat white fruit again.