Master Luo Cao

Although Fu Yunshu said that he was focused on suppressing the bandits, he was not so courageous after all. Hearing that he was really going to Qunying Village, he would inevitably feel a little guilty. The people in this deep mountain are not familiar with their place of life, and if something happens, they may not be able to escape. They were about to grab Kou Luoche to persuade him, but when he looked up, he found that Brother Kou had already walked a long way forward, so he had to grimace catch up.

"Brother Kou," the little county magistrate was still worried, and followed behind Kou Luoche while looking around and muttering in a low voice, "It's the first time we come here, so we'd better be careful. Qunyingzhai doesn't know how many bandits there are. After walking for a while, maybe there will be another one. I have a rough idea of ​​the situation on Jindiao Mountain. We can just go back."

Kou Luoche continued to walk with his back to Fu Yunshu, without saying a word, and he didn't know whether he listened or not. Fu Yunshu was about to continue persuading him, but he suddenly stopped, the little magistrate didn't stop, and bumped into Kou Luoche on the back.Kou Luoche turned his head and pulled the little county magistrate out, rubbed his face casually, and said softly, "Hush, look, there's a house over there."

Fu Yunshu looked in the direction he pointed, and he saw a small courtyard with white walls and black tiles. Several green vines climbed the walls, and the walls were stained with mottled water stains.And tens of feet away from this small courtyard, a bright red flag was planted, with a lifelike eagle embroidered on it, and its sharp eagle eyes seemed to be staring at the two uninvited guests.

"The flag of Qunying Village?" Fu Yunshu murmured in surprise, "Where is this place?"

Kou Luoche said jokingly, "Maybe it's the small courtyard where Hai Dongqing usually lives for a few days when he has nothing to do."

Fu Yunshu "tsk tsk" twice, and said, "Haitongqing is the owner of Qunying Village, how could he live in this kind of yard?"

Kou Luoche asked sincerely, "Where does Brother Fu think he should live?"

"Hmm..." Fu Yunshu thought for a moment, and said, "It's nothing more than a wine pool and meat forest, a pink gold cave, or a white jade bed drunk, a golden cup in the palm of your hand..."

Kou Luoche imagined himself holding a golden sea bowl with shaking feet, slumping on a jade bed wrapped in a quilt, waving his big hand and yelling "Little ones, bring wine to my king", couldn't help shivering, and said: "Actually, not all bandits are so tasteless." He tentatively invited, "How about... let's go in and have a look?"

Fu Yunshu said hesitantly, "It's not very good."

"It's okay," Kou Luoche said, "You see, no one is there."

In fact, I don’t know how many secret sentry traps have been walked along this road, but Pigeon Hu has already come to inform him with his hands covered and his buttocks lit, which disturbed the interest of the village owner. I can walk here safely.

The little county magistrate was very cautious, but still refused to agree, "I think today's trip is too smooth, maybe there is some kind of net hidden in this yard, waiting for us to throw ourselves into it."

"Actually, it's not smooth, it's just a coincidence," Kou Zhaizhu explained painstakingly: "We dealt with the bandit patrolling the mountain earlier. We went down the mountain, but the bandit village was empty, so no one noticed it. If we wait for a while, the bandit who fainted wakes up, and the bandit who came down the mountain returns to the village and collides with us, then it will be bad."

When Fu Yunshu heard it, he felt that what Brother Kou said was very reasonable, and immediately said: "Then let's make a quick decision."

Kou Luochao led Fu Yunshu to the gate of the courtyard. Fu Yunshu looked up, and there was a plaque hanging on the door. The engraved characters were rather jerky. He took a while to recognize it before reading it out, "...蠮螉宫?"

"Take the mulberry worm and put it in the wooden sky and the pen holder (Note 1)," Kou Luochen boasted with a shy face, "it seems that the owner of this room is a person who loves books."

"The book has its own beauty," Fu Yunshu said jokingly, "Maybe what is hidden is not a book, but a beauty as beautiful as a flower."

Kou Luoche glanced at the little county magistrate beside him, "Well...you can consider it." After speaking, he raised his hand and pushed it, and the old wooden door opened with a "squeak", revealing the grassy garden behind the door.

Fu Yunshu waited for a while, saw that there were no hidden arrows or ambush knives and axes, and then walked in cautiously. The courtyard was full of common flowers and plants on the mountain. Because no one took care of it, the bluestone slabs had been obliterated, and there was almost no place to stay. He said, "It seems that no one has been here for a long time."

"Yeah." Kou Luoche responded sinisterly, thinking to himself that I've only been gone for a long time and I'll treat it as if I'm dead, and they don't even clean the yard for me, let's see how to deal with these lazy people in the future.

Walking through the front yard full of weeds, to the eaves of the front hall, there was a brass lock hanging on the door knocker, and it was taken off with a light pluck, Kou Luoche casually put the copper lock back on the door knocker, Pushing open the door, a misty cloud of dust was stirred up. When the dust settled, Fu Yunshu went up to take a look, and saw that in the large room, except for a red sandalwood desk, there were only rows of bookshelves, which were full of bookshelves. , are all books, and the room is full of ink fragrance.Fu Yunshu said: "It's really 'The Vegetarian'."

Kou Luoche said: "You said among the many books, will there be any one with a map of Qunying Village?"

When the little county magistrate heard it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he plunged into the pile of books and flipped through the books.Kou Luoche took a few glances at him, walked leisurely to the row of bookshelves in the corner, took out a volume of "Taiping Yulan", flipped through a few pages at random, and after confirming that it was the book he was looking for, quietly Stuffed it into his bosom, then turned to look for the little county magistrate.

The little county magistrate was already addicted to the sea of ​​books, and he completely forgot the purpose of his trip. Kou Luoche came back just to pick up a book. Now that he got the book, he was in a hurry to go back, so he flicked Fu Yunshu on the forehead, "Fu Brother."

Only then did Fu Yunshu come back to his senses, and looked up in astonishment, "What's wrong?"

Kou Luoche felt it was funny, and asked, "Have you found the map?"

Fu Yunshu murmured, "Not to mention whether there is a map here, even if there is, where can I find so many books?"

Kou Luoche asked: "Then what are you looking at now?"

The little county magistrate was startled, lowered his head guiltily, and said in a low voice, "This... I think this book is pretty good..."

Kou Luoqiao leaned over to take a look, and on the cover was written "Penglai Chronicles Volume [-]", and when he looked more carefully, it turned out to be a handwritten copy, the handwriting on the book was quite familiar, it was written by himself, the ink was yellowed, and the pages were slightly curled , which seems to have been written many years ago.Kou Luoche asked: "What about the first volume? Why did you just read the second volume?"

"The first volume..." Fu Yunshu frowned, and said hesitantly, "I seem to have read the first volume." He closed the book and held the thin copy in his arms, "I haven't found the second volume for so many years. , although I almost forgot all the contents of the first volume, but I have been thinking about it, I still think it is out of print, I never thought that I could find the manuscript here, it is really fate."

"Have you seen it?" Kou Luoche opened his phoenix eyes wide, as if he was shocked by this, "You actually saw it?"

"What's the matter, Brother Kou?" Fu Yunshu asked dully, "Is there anything wrong with this book...?"

"No." Dazed for a moment, Kou Luoche smiled lightly and said, "It's just that I've never heard of this 'Penglai Chronicle'. I didn't expect Brother Fu to cover a lot of things besides the Four Books and Five Classics. It's a bit surprising. .”

"It's really idle books." Fu Yunshu smiled a little embarrassedly. "My father never allowed me to read it, and he didn't read it himself, so although the family has a large collection of books, there is not a single legendary story book."

Kou Luoche asked: "Where did Brother Fu read the first volume of the Penglai Chronicle?"

Fu Yunshu was startled, lowered his head to think carefully for a moment, and then said: "It's really many years ago, I can't remember it clearly, but this is the only casual book I have read in so many years, so it leaves a deep impression on me." ... No matter how many there are, I can only vaguely remember them, as if... a little brother gave them to me," he raised his head and smiled at Kou Luoche, "I have always been very precious. When dad found out, he hid it in the bottom of the box all the time, and he forgot about it over time, and he still doesn’t know if it’s still there.”

Kou Luoche said: "If you have time, bring it for me to see?"

"Okay!" The little county magistrate readily agreed, and looked down at the book in his arms reluctantly, "It's a pity that when the bandits are successfully suppressed in the future, I don't know if this volume will be destroyed in the flames of war." Sighing heavily melancholy, "I don't know if I can wait until that day."

"Why wait for the coming day?" Kou Luoche said casually, "If you like it, you can take it away now."

Fu Yunshu's eyes lit up, and he said hesitantly: "Even if this book is owned by a bandit, if I don't ask for it, how is it different from him?"

"Okay, okay," Kou Luoche calculated that the time was almost up, and walked out with the little county magistrate in his arms, "The bandit has agreed to lend it to you."

Fu Yunshu couldn't help laughing, "How do you know that the bandit agreed to lend it to me?"

Kou Luoche flicked his fingers and said, "Shanren can figure out the mystery by pinching his fingers."

The two of them jumped down from the cliff as usual, climbing the tree all the way. Not long after their feet landed, they heard the swaying of the grass and trees not far ahead, and there was a rustling sound. : "Who is it? Come out."

Immediately, two people rushed out from behind the woods, and rushed towards them excitedly, "Master Fu! Mr. Kou! We have found you two!"

Kou Luoche took a closer look, and found that these two people were none other than the county government officials, Wang Xiaozhu and Yang Ye, and asked in confusion, "How did you find them?"

Wang Xiaozhu was out of breath from running, panting and said: "It was Lieutenant Zhao who sent his subordinates to find Mr. Fu. My lord, Kong Lun has already received it!"

"Really!" Fu Yunshu hurriedly walked out from behind Kou Luochao, "Is everyone alright? Are you still breathing?"

Several people walked while listening to Wang Xiaozhu's storytelling.

Said that after Master Kou and Master Fu had left for about two quarters of an hour, the bandit came down with the people on his back. Everyone at the foot of the mountain was very nervous, and they pressed their hands on the handle of the saber at their waist, but the bandit Without even looking at them, they went straight to the cash box, opened several big lids, counted them correctly, left the half-dead Kong Lun behind, picked up the box and left, the process was extremely professional and neat, and looked like a bunch of yamen servants All eyes widened.

"We didn't realize it until the bandits left, and hurried to untie that young master Kong. Although the young master Kong didn't lack any arms or legs, he died half of his life. He took a few sips of water to recover. I kept muttering in my mouth, and I leaned over to listen, and it seemed to be a person's name." Wang Xiaozhu said.

Fu Yunshu asked, "What name did you read?"

Wang Xiaozhu said: "Ah Jue!"

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Note 1: From Song·"Taiping Yulan"

I made up the Penglai Zhi. If there is a collision, it is purely coincidental.