Cold Sword Perched Peach Blossom

Both Fuhua and Yurui's eyes hadn't healed yet, so the task of cooking fell to Lin Rufei.For more than 20 years, he has not touched the spring water with his fingers, and stared at the pots and pans.Gu Xuandu, a senior who didn't know how many hundred years lived, was no better than him. He wanted to help Lin Rufei at first, but the two of them cooperated and successfully made food that was completely inedible.

Lin Rufei knew for the first time that chicken soup can be so unpalatable...

"How could this chicken be stewed like this?" Lin Rufei looked at the boiling iron pot in front of her with a sad face. The chicken stewed by others was delicious, but when he stewed it, it tasted weird. I feel nauseous after smelling it for a while.

"It may be that the breed of chicken is different." Gu Xuandu pretended to be calm, and analyzed with a serious face, "I think it must be because this chicken was raised in a bandit village, and it was contaminated with bandit spirit..."

Lin Rufei stared and listened to Gu Xuandu's nonsense.

Probably because Lin Rufei's eyes were too obvious, Gu Xuan laughed a few times: "Why don't we eat something else?"

I can only eat something else, Lin Rufei thought in despair, if this chicken soup is given to Fuhua Yurui, not only will it not be able to nourish the body, but it may have to go down the mountain to find another doctor for the two of them...

It was a long time later that Lin Rufei realized why his chicken soup was stewed like this - he stuffed a whole chicken directly into the iron pot, including the internal organs of the chicken.That is to say, he stewed things like chicken feces with the chicken, so that it would be a ghost if it tasted good.

The few people who failed to cook just made do with dry food for more than ten days. Lin Rufei's eyes glowed green after eating, and the two maids finally regained their eyesight.

On the night of Fuming, Fu Hua went to the cottage to catch a few rabbits and roasted them for Lin Rufei's meal.The rabbits in the mountains are very fat. After marinating, they are sprinkled with the special seasoning of floating flowers. The roasted oil blossoms are sizzling, exuding a strong meaty fragrance, which makes Lin Rufei salivate.He doesn't like meaty meat very much on weekdays, but after eating so much dry food that is naturally hard, he is really a bit gluttonous.

Fuhua smiled and cut up the rabbit meat, and handed it to Lin Rufei.

Lin Rufei happily ate it, and Gu Xuandu, an unreliable senior, stood beside him and asked sourly, "Is it delicious?"

Lin Rufei nodded.

Gu Xuandu said: "I want to eat too."

Lin Rufei said righteously: "This rabbit was raised in the bandit village, so I'm afraid it's not a decent rabbit."

Gu Xuandu: "..." This little guy who holds grudges.

Fuhua Yurui was inexplicable, she didn't know why Lin Rufei said such a sentence suddenly.

Lin Rufei said again: "But it doesn't matter if it's serious or not, as long as it's delicious." After speaking, he smiled and took another bite.

Gu Xuandu looked at Lin Rufei without saying a word for a long while, and gritted his teeth in hatred, but he couldn't find any words to refute. Lin Rufei smiled gloatingly at his rare embarrassment.

After Fuhua Yurui recovered from her illness, the four of them went on the road again. Although the horses they rode before were lost, fortunately there were still many horses in the bandit village, enough for them to use.

But there is still a very troublesome problem, that is, without Zhaocai, they don't know the way at all. Xiliang Mountain is so big, even Yujian has to fly for more than ten days. How long have you been walking.

Gu Xuandu volunteered, saying that he knew the road on Xiliang Mountain, Lin Rufei decided to believe him again.

After walking like this for half a day, Lin Rufei didn't let go of her hanging heart until she saw the eye-catching avenue.

Gu Xuandu found that the time passed, and the majesty of his senior was becoming more and more worthless, so he was a little depressed, and said, "Little Liu, why don't you believe me? I'm your senior...Come on, call again? "

Lin Rufei looked ahead and ignored her.

Gu Xuandu: "Ignore me?"

Lin Rufei said slowly: "It's so hot."

"Is the young master hot? Do you want to reduce your clothes?" Yurui thought the young master was talking to her, chewing corn candy and mumbled, "It's getting hotter and hotter in this mountain, and I don't know how long we have to go..."

Lin Rufei didn't speak again.

Gu Xuandu said: "Are you really ignorant?"

Seeing that Lin Rufei was silent, Gu Xuandu turned around and climbed onto the horse behind Lin Rufei, leaned close to Lin Rufei's ear and said grimly, "Xiao Jiu has heard the story of the Buddha with a severed head."

It was getting late at this moment, it was dusk, and the mountain wind was so strong that it rustled the treetops next to it.

Then Gu Xuandu told a chilling story in Lin Rufei's ear.

It is said that one day a certain scholar was in a hurry to take an exam, and was rushing through the Xiliang Mountains overnight, but suddenly it rained heavily. He happened to come across a ruined temple by the roadside, so he went into the temple to shelter from the rain.The dilapidated temple has been in disrepair for a long time, and the scholar saw a dilapidated Buddha statue after entering the door.The scholar was a little scared, but it was raining too hard outside, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and hide in a corner of the temple, planning to make do for the night.The scholar was very tired from the journey, so he fell asleep quickly. In his dream, he saw a man in cassock bowed to him and begged him for alms. The scholar said hello in a sleepy state, and fell asleep again past.

The next day when the weather cleared up, the scholar opened his eyes in a daze, and found himself lying in the corner had shifted his position, and was actually floating in mid-air, and he could condescend when he lowered his head. When he saw the whole temple, he Suddenly noticed a familiar person lying in the corner of the temple, looked carefully, and found that the person lying there turned out to be himself!And the head seemed to be cut off by someone, leaving only half of the body, the scholar was terrified, looked under him, only to find that his head was pressed on top of the Buddha statue.

After Gu Xuandu finished his last sentence, a monster wind suddenly blew up in the forest, and the sky that was supposed to be clear was covered with dark clouds in a short while, and it seemed that it was going to rain.

Lin Rufei turned her head to look at him, her eyes were full of reproach, thinking why this senior was so childish, telling a ghost story was fine, and even made a cloudy day to scare people.

Gu Xuandu helplessly defended: "I didn't do it!"

Lin Rufei clicked her tongue in disbelief.

Gu Xuandu: "..." He really didn't do it.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Fuhua and Yurui thought that it was going to rain, and asked if they could find a place to shelter from the rain.

This summer is not like spring, the rain always comes as soon as it is said, and it is very capricious.

"Hey, is there a temple there?" Yu Rui asked suddenly, and raised her finger to the deep forest.

Lin Rufei looked in the direction she pointed, and indeed saw a ruined temple. Seeing this, Lin Rufei turned her head and cast her gaze at Gu Xuandu.

Gu Xuandu's face was full of innocence: "It really has nothing to do with me——"

"Master, can we go to that temple to shelter from the rain?" Fu Hua asked.

The summer rain came quickly, and now there were tiny raindrops hitting the leaves above their heads. Judging from their posture, it seemed that there would be a heavy rain soon.

Lin Rufei said, "Also." He glanced at Gu Xuandu again, and the meaning in his eyes was already very obvious.

Gu Xuan could not speak clearly, thinking that he just wanted to scare Lin Rufei, who knew such a coincidence.But there are no coincidences in the world. When several people entered the temple and saw the Buddha statue with a severed head in the middle of the temple, Gu Xuandu really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't tell...

Taking advantage of the effort of Fuhua Yurui to collect firewood, Lin Rufei said to Gu Xuandu with a half-smile, "This can also be done by you, it's not easy."

Gu Xuandu said: "It's with me...forget it." He wanted to say that it had nothing to do with him, but the rain outside and the Buddha statue in front of him made him unbelievable, so he simply didn't bother to explain.

Lin Rufei looked around, and took a brief look at this very abrupt ruined temple.

The temple is not big, and there is such a headless Buddha statue in the middle. In front of the Buddha statue, there are dilapidated merit boxes and two dusty futons, and the traces of incense left by the year can be faintly seen.

There was no window in the temple, only an old wooden door that could not be worn any longer. Lin Rufei took out a cloth from the Xu Na Ring, spread it on the floor, and sat down on the spot.

As soon as Fuhua and Yurui returned to the temple, it began to rain heavily outside.The rain was overwhelming, like pouring, accompanied by lightning and thunder, it sounded a bit scary for a while.

The three sat in the temple, surrounded by a bonfire, Lin Rufei looked at the faces of her two maids shining in the firelight, and suddenly smiled slyly: "You have heard the story of the decapitated Buddha..."

Gu Xuandu: "..." Xiao Jiu, you bastard.

Fuhua Yurui and the two of them honestly said they had never heard of it, so Lin Rufei repeated the story Gu Xuandu told vividly, accompanied by the roaring thunder and rain, which set off the ghostly atmosphere in the whole temple. dense.Although Fuhua Yurui has a high level of cultivation, she is a girl after all. After hearing Lin Rufei's story, her face turns pale, especially Yurui, who looks at the severed head Buddha from time to time, her arms holding Fuhua are still shaking non-stop.Fu Hua pretended to be calm, but in fact she was a little flustered, hugged Yu Rui firmly, and forced herself to be calm: "Don't... don't be afraid, there are no ghosts in the world."

Looking at the appearance of her maid, Lin Rufei finally understood why Gu Xuandu had such a bad taste. It was really interesting to watch others tremble because of her own story.

He was not afraid at all, and said with a smile: "It's so late, it's time to rest, I'll go to bed first."

After saying that, he fell asleep, and deliberately pulled the blanket to cover half of his face,

Sitting beside Lin Rufei helplessly, Gu Xuandu found that if this young master became ill-minded, it would be really overwhelming.

Fuhua and Yurui comforted each other for a long time before leaning on each other's shoulders to calm down.

The sound of wind and rain outside the temple is still there, accompanied by rolling thunder, it is destined not to have a good rest tonight.

Lin Rufei coughed suddenly in the middle of the night, and when she woke up in a daze, she saw that the bonfire in the temple was already half-burned and was about to go out.Fuhua Yurui sat next to him and dozed off. He didn't wake them up. After sitting up, he took the firewood next to him and put it into the campfire. Seeing the fire rekindled, he sat back under the covers.

The rain outside was still falling, but fortunately, the rain was much lighter, and it seemed that it was about to stop.The rain in summer has always been like this, it comes and goes quickly, but every time it rains, the weather will get hotter, and the breath of summer will gradually become stronger.

Lin Rufei drank some cold water and suppressed the itching in his throat. He couldn't sleep, so he leaned against the wall and stared at the Buddha statue in the temple in a daze.Gu Xuandu didn't know why he was there right now, and he didn't see him. Lin Rufei was thinking about this, but suddenly noticed something.He gasped, stood up, approached the Buddha statue, and found that the Buddha statue turned around silently, originally facing the direction of the main entrance, but now facing himself.It stands to reason that ordinary people should be afraid when they see such a scene, but Lin Rufei immediately thought of Gu Xuandu, a wicked senior, so her expression did not change. She walked to the Buddha statue in a few steps, and carefully looked at the Buddha statue in front of her. .

During the daytime, Lin Rufei did not take a closer look at the Buddha statue, but at this moment, with the light of the fire, Lin Rufei took a closer look at the Buddha statue.Although it is very dilapidated, it can be vaguely seen that the craftsmanship of its carving is very exquisite, and every detail on it is vivid, but it is a pity that the most wonderful part of the Buddha's head was cut off.

Many people who steal cultural relics will choose to cut off the Buddha's head, because this is the most valuable part of the Buddha sculpture.And in the middle of the Buddha statue's body, there is a very inconspicuous thin line, which looks like it was cut by some sharp weapon, destroying the integrity of the whole Buddha statue.Lin Rufei felt a little regretful in her heart, and sighed softly, but heard a soft "donor" from behind the Buddha statue. Looking for the reputation, she saw a monk in commoner clothes standing in the corner of the ruined temple, with a hand in his hand. Holding a broken bowl, a pair of black eyes were staring at him as calmly as water.

This monk looks very handsome, with a dignified expression and a strict manner, but it's just that he suddenly appeared in this dilapidated temple at this time, no matter how you look at it, he feels out of place.

Lin Rufei said, "Why is little master here?"

"Shouldn't I ask the benefactor?" The monk smiled, "This temple is the monk's usual residence."

Lin Rufei said: "Really, we didn't see you when we came in..."

The monk smiled and said, "Just now the monk went out to beg for alms, and came back when the rain stopped. I didn't want to but saw the benefactors..."

Lin Rufei said: "Then what did it turn into?" Not to mention a head or something.

The monk shook his head.

Lin Rufei looked at him with burning eyes.

The monk was inexplicably stared at by Lin Rufei, and asked, "Why is the benefactor looking at me like this?"

Lin Rufei said, "I'm waiting for your next sentence."

The monk wondered, "The next sentence?"

Lin Rufei said, "You don't need anything from me?"

The monk said: "If the benefactor is willing to give alms, that is naturally the best."

"I don't want to." Lin Rufei said, "I don't have anything."

The monk was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't expect Lin Rufei to be so stingy, even a bit aggressive, he frowned slightly, and was about to say something, when two shrill screams sounded beside him.It was Fuhua and Yurui who were awakened by the conversation between Lin Rufei and the monk. As soon as they woke up, they heard the monk's words, "If the benefactor is willing to give alms"...

It was almost exactly the same as in the ghost story.

The monk was puzzled and asked, "What are their names?"

Lin Rufei said, "Maybe I'm afraid of you."

Monk: "..."

After Fuhua Yurui finished screaming, she drew her sword and rushed in front of Lin Rufei, muttering that the demons had retreated, and kept gesticulating at the monk.The monk was stunned by this scene, and the bowl in his hand fell directly to the ground, making a piercing crisp sound. He never figured out what the three people in front of him meant. Is it as terrifying as a Rakshasa?

The two maids yelled for a while, but seeing that the monk didn't respond, they stopped what they were doing, and approached suspiciously, Yurui boldly stretched out her finger, poked the monk's cheek, and said embarrassingly: " How could it be hot..."

This monk also has a good temper, instead of being angry when Yurui poked him, he smiled: "I'm not hot, so I'm still cold?"

"Aren't you a ghost?" Yu Rui asked softly.

The monk said, "How am I like a ghost?"

Fuhua Yurui looked at each other, and at the same time looked at Lin Rufei, with some helplessness in their eyes.

This monk seems to be a real person, but he doesn't know if he has anything to do with Gu Xuanyou.

Lin Rufei bowed to the monk with clasped hands, and sincerely apologized, saying that she didn't mean to offend, but she just heard a ghost story, who knew that everything in the temple matched that ghost story.

After listening to Lin Rufei's explanation, the monk didn't care about it, but smiled: "I don't know what kind of story scares the two female benefactors into such a state?"

Lin Rufei then told the story of Gu Xuandu.

Unexpectedly, after the monk heard the story, his black eyes moved slightly, and he said, "Where is the person who told this story to the benefactor?"

Lin Rufei didn't want to expose Gu Xuandu's existence, so she lied: "I saw it in an old book, it's too old, and it doesn't have a cover, so I don't know what it's called."

"So that's how it is." The monk sighed slightly, showing a somewhat lonely expression, "I thought..." He stopped speaking, and softly recited a sentence of Amitabha.

Lin Rufei became interested: "Does this story have anything to do with Little Master?"

The monk said with a smile: "I have an old friend who has a surly temper and likes to tease people the most. When he has nothing to do, he uses this story to frighten his beloved. He chopped down the Buddha statue, split the Buddha statue in half, and caused the little monk to be severely reprimanded by the abbot."

Lin Rufei smiled and said, "This is interesting."

"It's really interesting." The monk said, "It's just a pity..."

Don't need to ask what's the pity, Lin Rufei already guessed it, the world is impermanent, old people and old things are always nostalgic.

The monk said: "The sky outside is already clear. If the benefactor wants to go on his way, he must do so as early as possible. In another twenty or so days, there may be a heavy rain in the mountains that lasts for several days. The benefactor had better leave the mountain as soon as possible."

Lin Rufei looked up, only to realize that it was indeed bright outside the window, the rain was over and the sky was clear, and the air in the mountains was filled with the unique fragrance of soil.The time passed so quickly, Lin Rufei just felt that he had only spoken a few words with the monk, but it was already dawn, and he saw the monk making a gesture of seeing off the guests, so he couldn't bother him anymore.But before leaving, after thinking about it, he asked Fuhua to fetch some more dry food, and handed it to the monk respectfully, apologizing for the misunderstanding last night.

The monk smiled docilely, and did not refuse Lin Rufei's kindness. He took the dry food, took out a Buddhist bead from his pocket, and handed it to Lin Rufei, saying that Lin Rufei was destined to be with him. As a gift in return.

Lin Rufei took the beads and thanked the monk.

Under the gaze of the monk, the three of them led the horse and left the ruined temple, and walked to the muddy mountain road outside.

Gu Xuandu, who had disappeared all night, suddenly appeared on the horseback. Lin Rufei saw some mud spots on his red clothes, and whispered, "Where did you go last night?"

Gu Xuandu said: "Going to catch ghosts."

Lin Rufei: "..." He finally understood. Gu Xuan didn't even want to tell him why he went there, so he just casually said to catch ghosts. Fortunately, he asked seriously the first two times. He really thought that his senior would What kind of spell to exorcise evil spirits.

"I met a monk in the temple." Lin Rufei casually talked about what happened just now, "The ruined temple, the Buddha statue, if it wasn't for the monk being a living person, I would have thought you made it."

Gu Xuandu: "...I'm not that kind of boring person."

Lin Rufei looked at him suspiciously.

Gu Xuan felt helpless: "Well, at least I wasn't so boring yesterday."

Lin Rufei said: "He also gave me a bead." As he spoke, he took out the bead from his cuff, looked carefully, but found that the word Nanyin was engraved on the bead, and said in surprise , "This monk actually belongs to Nanyin Temple?"

Nanyin Temple is famous for its Dharma in Jianghu. It is rumored that the Dharma practiced by the disciples in it can overcome grievances and calm demons. However, Nanyin Temple is located in a remote corner of Yaoguang Continent, and the number of disciples is not many, so although it is famous, it is really Rare, I didn't expect that the handsome monk I saw just now was a disciple of Nanyin Temple.

Gu Xuandu just listened and didn't intend to answer.

Lin Rufei said: "Senior, have you ever heard of Nanyin Temple?"

Gu Xuandu said: "I've heard of it, but I don't like it very much. There are too many rules. I also quit this, and I also quit that. It's very troublesome."

Lin Rufei smiled and said, "Yes."

Because of the warning from the monk, they did not dare to waste any more time this time. Under the guidance of Gu Xuandu, they passed through Xiliang Mountain overnight, and finally arrived at the small town on the border of Xiliang Mountain before the rainy season.After more than ten days of exhaustion in the mountains, Lin Rufei's body couldn't bear it any longer. After arriving at the inn in the small town, she slept hard for half a day, and barely relieved the fatigue on her body, but she was still a little limp. , no spirit.After waking up, he was a little hungry, so he wanted to find Fuhua and ask her to make him something to eat.But who knows that before entering Fuhua's room, he heard the worried conversation of the maids in the room.

"I'm really worried about the young master."...Huh?Why worry about yourself?Lin Rufei thought suspiciously.

"Yeah, I'm also worried. Tell me, did the young master get scared that day in the temple?"

"I think it's possible, otherwise how could talking to himself become so serious these days, I was so scared that I thought he was bewitched."

"Should we still find a doctor for the young master?"

"No, don't irritate the young master. I'll go and ask first to see if I can prescribe some tranquilizing medicine first. This is a bit evil, so be more cautious."

"Well, I'm free today, so I'll go to the city and ask the doctor."

Lin Rufei listened with a complicated expression, turned her head and looked at someone standing beside her.

Gu Xuandu was watched by Lin Rufei, still with a calm face, and winked at him, coquettishly: "I look good, don't I?"

Lin Rufei said seriously: "Good-looking is good-looking."

Before Gu Xuandu had time to show his smile, he heard the young master with his mouth getting louder and louder: "How can you be enchanted by being ugly."

Gu Xuandu: "..."

The author has something to say: Gu Xuandu: Why isn't Xiaojiu afraid of ghosts?

Lin Rufei: Do you think you are a human being now?

Gu Xuandu: …………………